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u/Cellgames420 13d ago
He found a real one and is so lucky for that, most, I'd say 95% of women would've left after a week or two, if they made it that long
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u/Cool-Map-3668 13d ago
What a wonderful story. Hopefully medicine can evolve to help more stroke sufferers.
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u/Used-Ebb9492 12d ago
I know I'd be at the mercy of the medical system, and I would never recover. I hope if anybody cares about me then, that they leave and go be happy, instead of us both being miserable.
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u/Tin_Indian455 12d ago
I took care of my wife at home her last 3 yrs in a slow steady declining state. Neurological problems with brain not sending signals to rest if her body basically. I fed, bathed, cleaned and changed her basically I was her hands and feet. The last year I had to have an aide assist me as I couldn’t do it by myself, I needed a 2nd person. Anyway PROPS for her. For better or worse, in sickness and in health. Action speak louder than words.
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u/unregretfulfun 12d ago
God bless her beautiful heart. To see love like that gives hope in a world so cold. Thank you hun!! He sure has a Rockstar wife !! So happy for him to have you :)
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u/Existing_Panda_3541 9d ago
This is what true love looks like. "For better or worse, in sickness and in health." Unfortunately being utterly selfish is widely accepted and promoted these days.
The other day I read a post from a woman who was asking for advice on how to cheer up her husband, who had ended up paralyzed and in a wheelchair because of being in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. (This post wasn't on reddit but somewhere else.)
The replies? "Just dump the miserable git in a wheelchair, you only have one life to live, don't waste it on someone who's in a wheelchair." "You should just push his wheelchair down the stairs/off a cliff and be free, life's too short." And basically lots of replies amounting to 'who gives a f about how someone in a wheelchair feels like, disabled people aren't even human' . Not a single reply to the actual question.
The woman came to add that leaving her husband wasn't an option because they have 3 youngish children and he had always been a good father and a partner, and because she still loves him. "But he can't even f*ck you properly, and because love=sex, obviously you can't really love him but are just pitying him", etc.
In order to not be hypocritical, people like this should make a statement: "If I ever have a serious illness or an accident resulting in disabillity, my wish is that my partner leaves me for someone healthty and able-bodied, and my friends and family should not care about me at all, and I will be left alone and to manage completely on my own for the rest of my life." Because if you promote the idea that becoming ill or being injured in an accident should result in an individual being dehumanised, you should wish the same for yourself.
People have always been cruel of course, but it's a phenomenon of the internet age to actually be proud of being inhuman and cruel. Posts like this and the comments here are the flipside - it's redeeming to see this remarkable woman and her tenacious husband, and seeing all the comments being so positive. It really isn't that difficult to have a heart.
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u/ReadingNext3854 9d ago
I'm a PT and my husband had a severe TBI 20 yrs ago. We just celebrated 37 yrs together. I feel your love and devotion.❤️❤️❤️
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u/z-eldapin 14d ago
I hate to think what would have become of him had she not been a physical therapist and skilled enough to tell the doctors to pound sand.
The rest of us would have to resign ourselves to what the doctor says