Music Heals – Micah’s Story

Credit Jennifer Canvasser/Huffington Post

Jennifer Canvasser, founder of the NEC Society, experience a loss the magnitude of which few people can appreciate. She lost her son Micah to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in 2012. During the last few months of his life, Micah’s struggle was alleviated by the power of music. Canvasser shared her family’s story, “Before My Son Died, Music Mattered More Than Medicine,” with Huffington Post, revealing the ways that music helped her son and her family deal with treatment and loss.