No Bad Days Florida charity lives up to name that says it all By Tom Kirvan
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t’s a foundation with a name that should serve as an object lesson about the power of perseverance and positivity in life.
The No Bad Days Foundation, a Florida-based nonprofit that aids children with medical disabilities in the Space Coast community of Brevard County, was the brainchild of Melbourne intellectual property attorney Mark Warzecha with a special assist from its first beneficiary, a now 12-year-old boy by the name of Owen Johnson.
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“When Owen was 2 years old, his parents’ car was rear-ended by a drunk driver, killing his 4-year-old sister and leaving him with a severe spinal cord injury that rendered him a quadriplegic,” said Warzecha, who over the next decade would become the father of three children of his own. “It was a devastating loss for the family – and the community at-large. There are really no words to describe it.” The loss would soon be compounded by word that insurance would not cover the cost of a much-needed piece of medical
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equipment that would help keep Owen’s muscles from atrophying, according to Warzecha. “It cost $35,000 and when the insurance company denied its purchase, that’s when I decided we had to do something to help come up with the money for Owen’s long-term health in the hope that someday there will be a cure for spinal cord injuries,” Warzecha related. So, Warzecha and his colleagues at Widerman Malek in Melbourne hatched