The parents of four-year-old Ava Adams are crediting the music of Willie Nelson with saving her young life.
Adams was born premature at 27 weeks and endured 12 surgeries in the first 15 months of her life. Her parents, Brittany and Jamison, were allowed very little interaction with her in the neonatal intensive care unit, but noticed that Nelson's music made her feel better.
"Any time she was having a bad day, you could play Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash or Ray Price and her stats would come up, she would start doing better just almost immediately," Jamison tells News Channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas.
"You have no clue how many times you've actually saved our daughter's life," Brittany says. "There were times where her heart rate was incredibly low. She was . . . cardiac, she was not doing well. She spent so long in there and it was such a long road, but actually just playing that music for her really, really did change and save her life."
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