From the outside, Jhorden Eberhart seems like any other kid. He arrived at One Buccaneer Place on Friday sporting a number three Buccaneers jersey with his favorite player’s name emblazoned on the back: Winston.
"He’s a big [Jameis Winston] fan,” his mother, Britney Mack, said. “He’s a big football fan, period.”
But Jhorden is here with the Children’s Dream Fund because as a newborn, Jhorden was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia. It is a chronic and life-threatening condition that frequently gives him headaches and body pain, his mother says.
It was a case manager for the Children’s Dream Fund and Jhorden’s doctors that got him in touch with the Buccaneers.