Consider yourself blessed…

Please consider yourself blessed if you are fortunate enough to pass through the doors of RHI. Now...I know that sentence sounds silly. Patients at RHI are often fighting serious battles to regain strength and mobility and independence...so why should they be thought of as blessed? Hopefully, the following story will help explain my statement.

Stan and I first met in August of 1999. We worked together. In January of 2001, our friendship turned into something much more. We both felt incredibly fortunate to have found each other. Our time together was joyous...in spite of the fact that Stan was diagnosed with a recurrent malignant grade 3/grade 4 brain tumor in October of 2001. The statistics were bleak.

Hope was precious to us...giving up simply wasn't an option. To that end, we became engaged (while in Las Vegas!) in September of 2002. Meanwhile, Stan endured one surgery, one gamma knife treatment, and three different chemotherapy regimens...and he was rapidly losing functionality on the left side of his body. Stan was SUCH a fighter. So, we planned our April 5, 2003 wedding knowing that it would take place.