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A few years ago we were told by some very well credentialed doctors that our son would never walk again. He had been beaten and robbed on a fraternity pledge outing in San Francisco during the first quarter of his freshman year. He was left with severe spinal cord damage, a badly broken pelvis, a shattered elbow and a collapsed lung. Never one to quit, he was back in school by spring term and started fighting his way back. He spent two years in a wheelchair but managed to walk up to receive his diploma.
Since the first of February, he has been teaching English, physics and math in Italy. Today I got an email that he had just returned from three days in Gran Paradiso Park in the Italian Alps. During his stay he hiked around Lake Ceresole and climbed to the summit at Colle Nivolet. He was more excited about the friends he had met and the wildlife he had seen than he was about doing something doctors said he could never do. An email from your kid should not make you cry but this one did.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)like that is reason to (happy) cry.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Marvelous OP!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)and great news!
GentryDixon
(2,944 posts)First feel good post I have seen today.
His hard work paid off. Cheers to him.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for sharing, FightingIrish.
Raster
(20,996 posts)Congratulations to your son. Bless your hearts.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Thanks for sharing his story!
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Thank you.
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Thank you for this wonderful and uplifting thread.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. Washington Irving
Without doubt ... your tears were messengers of unspeakable love.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Thank you for an inspirational story and best wishes for your son.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...so he must have had great parenting!
PEACE!
rurallib
(62,346 posts)What an inspiration.
revolution breeze
(879 posts)Thank you for sharing.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I just became an empty nester about a week ago when the last of three moved to Alaska for a welding job. (he's 19)
It doesn't take much for me to get misty about my kids, especially after a coupla beers.
Your son did something in overcoming his beating that few could do, and something by climbing to that summit that few could do.
"smiling and misting"
juajen
(8,515 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Just ask those crybaby Vikings.
Awesome post!
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)I know....was married to an Irishman for 46 years!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Didn't.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,073 posts)Wonderful news!
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)I'm on the verge of tears here.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)I'm so happy for you all!
Timbuk3
(872 posts)Thanks for sharing this, and wishing the very best future for your son. Not that he needs it.
evilhime
(326 posts)Thanks! So good to have a feel good story, even if it did make me tear up!!!! Good on you and him!!!!
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Hugs to all of you... so happy its turned out okay.
emilyg
(22,742 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)It is very understandable why that email made you cry.
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)And I'm sobbing, and the pure joy of HIS excitement versus your's. Love it
russ1943
(618 posts)nt
calimary
(80,699 posts)GREAT news!!!
Thank you SO much for sharing! Something like this just lifts everybody up!
cate94
(2,797 posts)Thanks for sharing!
I don't think anyone could read your OP w/o getting some happy tears.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)Why wouldn't it make you weep tears of joy? Sounds like a tough hombre and a great young man to boot. You should be proud.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)He sounds like quite a guy. I know you're very proud, and who wouldn't be?
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Good tears, though.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)That is wonderful!
tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)hell, I can barely see the screen......it's suddenly gotten all blurry....
Your OP made ME cry, I can't imagine what that email did to you! How frigging AWESOME!