In perhaps his most searing blog to date, Brad Keselowski revealed in a Wednesday post that daughter Scarlett was given a fatal diagnosis nearly one month after she was born — one that turned out to be inaccurate.
The Team Penske driver and girlfriend Paige White were told on June 16 that Scarlett had a condition that would cause her to eventually not be able to eat or breathe.
Keselowski writes: “It’s fair to say that those hours were among the worst in my life and Paige’s. As a parent, this was pretty much your worst nightmare. We went into full freak-out mode.
“Not really knowing what to do, we just started contacting doctors, and eventually, got in touch with the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, which is kind of the official hospital of a lot of people at Penske Corporation. We were able to get connected with one of their main doctors, and flew with Scarlett to Minnesota as soon as we could.
“Their diagnosis was this: ‘Oh, yeah, she’s in a lot of trouble, but she doesn’t have what those doctors said she has.’ She had laryngomalacia, a weakness in the muscles of the throat that’s fairly common in infants, though it’s rarely as severe as Scarlett’s case was. They did emergency surgery on her the next day, and it saved her life.”
Keselowski and White took their daughter back home on Father’s Day. Three weeks later, Keselowski won the Kentucky 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race … and celebrated in Victory Lane with Paige and Scarlett.
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“Just being there, holding Scarlett — it was the culmination of one of the most powerful experiences of my entire life,” Keselowski writes. “I honestly can’t think of anything to compare it to. It felt like its own victory. It really did.”
The title of this latest post is ” A Win for Scarlett.” Click here to read the entire piece.