Kellisa
went another calendar year without a surgery.
Hannah
Montana came to Jacksonville in January. The concert sold out in minutes before
we were able to buy tickets. We even tried to buy accessible tickets without
success. I couldn’t pull the trigger to buy three tickets together that were
selling for thousands online. It was breaking my heart that I didn’t have
tickets for Kellisa. Two nights before the concert, I bought three single seats
spread throughout the arena for face value on eBay. I didn’t know what we would
do once inside, but Kellisa was going to see Hannah and that’s all that
mattered. We stopped at the information booth and found a helpful lady who
escorted us to the accessible seating areas. We did not see a single disabled
child or adult among the dozens of families in the reserved areas. Two families
in one of the disabled areas offered to move closer together to allow us a
space for Kellisa. The moms would go on to tell us that they bought the
disabled seats instead of fighting for regular seats. They were bragging to us and acted like it wasn’t a big
deal that they found a loophole in purchasing the hottest tickets of 2008 even though no one in their parties was disabled.
