Joanne and Andrew Brown, and baby Frankie
This family of three had a close call with nature this week. They were vacationing on the small, remote Hong Island near the coast of Krabi when the Tsunami hit.
As Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor visited them in the hospital, they related that this is not the first time their daughter beat all odds and survived.
Their daughter, Frankie (Chaya Mushka) almost died at birth. Later the prognosis came from the doctors that she would would have down syndrome. None of this happened. Their daughter, who is now 18 months old, is -- thank G‑d -- an active, healthy child.
They survived the ordeal at birth, and now the Tsunami — the mother, father and baby were all under water at one point during the flooding.
Andrew, Frankie's father, has in the past traveled to visit the Ohel, the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, in Queens, New York, on two separate occasions to beseach his intervention for blessings.
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, visiting with the Brown family