It\u2019s a long journey from a fun-loving pro-wrestler to a stay-at-home dad caring for a child who can\u2019t talk or walk and depends on him around the clock.\u00a0 Watching over his softly silent 7-year-old daughter, Steven Sharp calls her birth in 2006 both the greatest and the worst day of his life.<\/p>\n
Brain damaged since arriving into the world, Samantha Grace Sharp was given two years to live, but that grim life sentence has come and gone — and she is hanging on.\u00a0 With his wife\u2019s job providing health insurance, Steven has taken on the role of stay-at-home dad and nurse. He changes his daughter\u2019s diapers, administers her medicine, feeds her and gives her stretches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSamantha can\u2019t walk or talk \u2013 though she has some movement in her arms and legs \u2013 and is dependent on her parents\u2019 care 24 hours a day. She\u2019s basically an infant in the body of a 7 year-old, her mom noted.\u00a0 Carlene, Steven\u2019s wife, calls her husband’s care amazing.\u00a0 \u201cIt is truly a blessing that I have him because I don\u2019t know many men\u2026 who would have hung around,\u201d she said, adding she sees a strong bond between father and daughter. \u201cSam will always be daddy\u2019s girl. Always and forever.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n
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