People wonder about why I know the most random things? I find myself reading random things on Wikipedia a lot. Or just whatever topic is in mind, it’s highly likely I’ll google it.
So I was reading a Wikipedia entry on Christopher Reeve. (How I got here? Someone on Tumblr posted a picture of Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams back when they were roommates at Julliard, before they were anybody. So naturally I looked up the histories of both of them) So anyways, in the Reeve entry, it got to the point about his spinal injury.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do if i were in his shoes or his family/close friends’ shoes. How do you go on? How do you find the right words to comfort this guy who’s pretty much going through hell?
After considering his situation, believing that not only would he never walk again, but that he might never move a body part again, Reeve considered suicide. He mouthed to Dana (his wife), “maybe we should let me go.” She tearfully replied, “I am only going to say this once: I will support whatever you want to do, because this is your life, and your decision. But I want you to know that I’ll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You’re still you. And I love you.” Reeve never considered suicide as an option again.
Wow tell me you did not just get tingles?
Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine (June 1995) “was frightening to contemplate. … I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. … Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent.” The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.
Man, I feel the love.
