Fort Worth Firefighter Caleb Halverson is on a mission to accomplish two goals.<\/p>\n
One would be to crawl on the floor with his young son. The other would return to duty as a firefighter.<\/p>\n
Halverson was seriously injured last year battling a garage fire<\/a>. Pinned by a beam, he was unable to reach his radio. However, fellow firefighters located and rescued him, according to KDFW.<\/a><\/p>\n He spent 34 days in Parkland Hospital after suffering third-degree burns and a serious leg injury. Meanwhile, at another hospital, his son, Hudson, was in a fight of his own after being born 13 weeks premature, weighing one pound, nine ounces.<\/p>\n Halverson was home when his tiny record-setting son was released. Hudson now holds two records — the one with smallest birthweight and the longest stay in the NICU.<\/p>\n The injured firefighter, who once faced denial for his worker’s comp case, still faces a long journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n He’s undergone 12 surgeries and goes to physical therapy three times a week. He balks at his doctor’s opinion that his knee bending at 90 degrees is a win.<\/p>\n “It’s not a win in my head, if that makes sense. You know, like a win for me is getting back on the truck, like playing with my son, being able to crawl on the floor with him and be active with him.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Firefighter Caleb Halverson is on a mission to accomplish two goals. One would be to crawl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-429569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}