A Family Learns the True Meaning of ‘in Sickness and in Health’

The story of a woman, the husband she vowed to care for, and how their relationship changed after his severe brain injury:

“On a Saturday morning in the spring of 2010, Page had arranged for Robert to come home from Sunrise for breakfast. She had asked Robert’s brother Will to drive down from Annandale to be with them and sent the girls out for the morning with Allan Ivie, a friend from childhood who had come back into her life. She had consulted with Robert’s doctors and her minister. She cooked up some eggs. She was nervous as she sat down at the big oak table next to her husband of 16 years.

“Then she had a conversation with Robert she had never imagined she could have.”

Author: Susan Baer
Source: Washington Post
Published: Jan 5, 2012
Length: 22 minutes (5,584 words)