“One day I told my wife, ‘I don’t feel well. I’m going to lie down and take a nap.’ She was going to school at the time. When she came back from class, she couldn’t wake me up. She told my son to call 911. Next thing they knew, I was in an ambulance heading to Hermann Hospital in Houston.

“I had suffered a brain aneurysm. They had to remove a portion of my skull and do surgery. Afterwards, they put me in a medically induced coma. I was out of it for seven months.

“When I came to and they brought me home to recover, they had me in a hospital bed by a window so I could see out. Eventually, I went from a wheelchair to a walker to crutches to a cane. I was doing physical therapy at a rehab place in Baytown that we just loved. They were so good to me. Every day, they had me do a little bit more.

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“I was in sixth grade when my friend’s parents picked me up from school one day and took me to the hospital. They told me that my dad wasn’t feeling well. He was the toughest guy ever, so I knew if he was at the hospital it probably wasn’t good. He had a stroke and a ruptured brain aneurysm. He wasn’t supposed to make it.

“It happened a week after he turned 50. That was 10 years ago this March. He was in a coma for a little over a month. He’s had several setbacks since then, but he keeps on persevering. He can’t use his right side and he can’t talk beyond saying yes or no. But he’s still here and he’s stable. You can’t ask for too much more.”

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