When storms, strong winds, and tornados hit North Texas on Monday, Shawn Zeleny had a fast, reflexive reaction that he needed to save his daughter no matter the consequences.
When storms, strong winds, and tornados hit North Texas on Monday, a father had a fast, reflexive reaction that he needed to save his daughter no matter the consequences.
Shawn Zeleny spoke to FOX 4 Friday from his Fort Worth hospital room, sharing the second he knew he needed to sacrifice his life in order to save his daughter. "I couldn’t sit there and watch. I couldn’t sit there and watch my baby die. I couldn’t live with myself. I had to get out there and do something," he said.
Zeleny’s quick decision to save his 17-year-old daughter from an EF-2 tornado is a decision he said he didn’t think twice about. Friday afternoon, from his hospital bed, Zeleny though back to the tense moments Monday evening.Zeleny remembers winding down for bed inside his south Burleson, home when the wind outside started to pick up. Within seconds, a Tornado Warning was issued for Johnson County.
"I thought to myself, I think I am dying," he recalled. "Right then and there, I prayed, but that last ditch and sob story lasted a whole ten seconds, if that. I was like, ‘No, I am not dying. I have too much to live for.’"The high school senior hopes to become a neonatal nurse."When you love somebody that much, they will lay your life for you and you lay your life for them," he added.
Zeleny will stay in the Fort Worth hospital over the weekend, hoping to be transferred to a rehab facility, where he will stay for two weeks.
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