Paulding officer makes trek through icy roads to get medicine for special needs child

The icy weather this week was making it difficult for a Paulding County mother of three to pick up some much-needed medication for her 3-year-old son with special needs.

But after posting about her situation on the sheriff's office Facebook page, Lindsay Low Fulcher was surprised when Sgt. Ashley Henson went to get the medicine for her son Bobby.

Bobby suffers from a rare condition called 3p deletion syndrome that's led him to missing 111 genes off of his 3rd chromosome. The special condition causes a developmental delay that his mother says prevents him from growing like a normal child. He uses mostly nonverbal methods to communicate, Low Fulcher said.

But after taking the medication for Bobby's ear infection and swollen throat this week, the 3-year-old sent a thank you message to the officer who made the trip to the pharmacy to get the antibiotics.

And his mother says she was more than happy to post on social media about the generosity of an officer who went beyond the call of duty.

This story was originally published January 19, 2018 at 11:06 AM with the headline "Paulding officer makes trek through icy roads to get medicine for special needs child."