Category: Family

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine …

“Once a Mom, always a Mom. No matter how grown the kids are they will always be your precious babies in your eyes.” The grown kids get angry at older Moms because now they’re too busy for Mom to talk to them. When they were little they loved to play …

This is a real life story of Rick Hoyt born 43 years ago in Winchester, Massachusetts. Somehow his umbilical cord became wrapped around his neck, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. The doctors told Rick’s parents that he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. …