{"id":96142,"date":"2016-06-15T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96142"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:12:36","slug":"new-documentary-highlights-beauty-purpose-children-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-documentary-highlights-beauty-purpose-children-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary highlights beauty and purpose of children with special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Joey Papa and his wife, Nikki, could never have predicted how much their fourth child would change their lives. Their daughter, Canaan, would never eat or drink normally. She would never crawl or walk. She wouldn&#8217;t live to see her fourth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>But what Canaan <em>would<\/em> do is set her parents\u2019 hearts on fire with love for her and for all children with special health needs, as well as their parents. On what would be Canaan\u2019s fourth birthday \u2013 June 25 \u2013 Papa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inthelandofcanaan\/?fref=ts\">The Canaan Foundation<\/a> will release, for one day only, a documentary called &#8220;In the Land of Canaan,&#8221; highlighting children with special needs and the lessons they are here to teach us.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZiFiHoom98\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although the pregnancy with Canaan was completely normal, shortly after her birth great concern for her health arose and she was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit. After six days, she was transferred to a different hospital, where she would spend more than three months in the NICU as doctors and her parents tried to understand what was happening. But for the three-and-a-half years that Canaan lived, her medical challenges would remain a medical mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings just continued to go downhill for her,\u201d explains Papa. \u201cFor most of her life they were able to identify certain things on CAT scans or MRIs, but there was never a medical diagnosis. There were brain abnormalities that were minor and that doctors said shouldn\u2019t have caused her the challenges that presented themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canaan had breath holding spells which left her blue four or five times a day. She had subclinical seizures in which her brain was experiencing seizure activity, but it never showed in her body. She had no feeling in her eyes or tongue. And she had no hearing in her right ear.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96160\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96160\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-96160 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FullSizeRender-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Canaan. Photo courtesy of Joey Papa.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FullSizeRender-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FullSizeRender-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FullSizeRender-525x700.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-96160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canaan. Photo courtesy of Joey Papa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite her challenges, Papa says that Canaan was cognitively present, and it meant the world to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was such a gift to us,\u201d he explains. \u201cShe knew who all of us were in her family. She had likes and dislikes that she showed through expressions. She even said, \u2018Hi, Dada\u2019 and \u2018Mama\u2019 a few times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April of 2015, Canaan developed pneumonia that wouldn\u2019t leave her alone. It continued to return every two to three weeks. Tragically, on October 30, 2015, Canaan died as a result of that chronic pneumonia. Her family was devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt her funeral a week later, it came to me. I had this sense that my wife and I \u2013 that something had shifted tracks,\u201d says Papa. \u201cI knew then that we were going to do something; I just didn\u2019t know what yet. At the end of November, the idea came to me to do a documentary. What I had noticed was that the transformative power that happened in my life is probably something that is common of people with children with special needs. That pain and tragedy of it all, it can produce great joy and satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96162\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96162\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-96162 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3787-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"Canaan with her father Joey, mother Nikki, and her siblings Jonah (9), Zion (7), Eden (6), and Torah (now 22 months). \" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3787-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3787-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3787-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-96162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canaan with her father Joey, mother Nikki, and her siblings Jonah (9), Zion (7), Eden (6), and Torah (now 22 months).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The documentary is a first step for Papa and his wife into public advocacy to give a voice to children with special needs. Through the movie and their foundation they hope to provide help for families of children with special needs by creating a social network exclusively for those families. They also want to help other people to connect better with friends who have children with special needs because parenting a child with a health condition can be very lonely and often family and friends don\u2019t know what to say or how to help. Papa wants to show them how to do that, and help families overcome that sense of isolation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very clear to us that her life\u2019s purpose would be blown out of the water,\u201d Papa says of Canaan. \u201cAnd the legacy she left us with is to advocate for children with special needs and for social reform in the hearts and minds of our society. We want to see more and more inclusive behavior. How we interact with one another as human beings &#8211; whatever conditions people have &#8211; that we see one another as equal. [\u2026] I know she was sent to give us a message, and all of these children are sent with a message, and if we listen closely and act humbly enough we can hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Land of Canaan&#8221; will be available to watch for free one day only \u2013 June 25, 2016 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthelandofcanaan.com\/#intro\">IntheLandofCanaan.com<\/a>. You can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inthelandofcanaan\/?fref=ts\">Facebook page<\/a> for more information and to help spread the message that children with special needs are here for a reason. Their lives have meaning and purpose and are worthy of living.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqHmkmRp3_I?list=PL-waQp-lJofeWlYo-XQdVaKAn6ZgXbzQ2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canaan\u2019s purpose in coming into our life wasn\u2019t that we would have her for 50 years,&#8221; says Papa in a video on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/joeytalkslife\">YouTube channel<\/a>, &#8220;but the intention of her life was to come in, capture our hearts, have us fall in love with her for three years and then send us on our way, pass us the baton, send us on a mission. So that\u2019s very clear to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Papa and his wife, Nikki, could never have predicted how much their fourth child would change their lives. Their daughter, Canaan, would never eat or drink normally. She would never crawl or walk. 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