Her Words

When I asked Rhonda if she was going to leave me, she used humor to help me to fight for my life. These words explain it all. 

Events that occur in a fraction of a second often seem to those who experience them as if they unfold in slow-motion. It was in just such a flashing moment that a robust and athletic Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from a spinal cord injury so severe, that his first lucid thought was that it might be better for everyone if he were to die.

When Dana whispered those life-saving words to me, ‘You’re still you. And I love you,’ it meant more to the me than just a personal declaration of faith and commitment. In a sense it was an affirmation that marriage and family stood at the center of everything, and if both were intact, so was your universe. 

-Christopher Reeve-