Giving Back
On a sunny spring day in 2011, I spent a full morning and part of an afternoon driving Andrea from sandwich shops to coffee houses to pizza joints in Denver as she applied for part-time jobs. Life was on the upswing. She was in the midst of a 4.0 college semester and was moving into her first apartment, a one-bedroom that she would fill with furniture handed down from her mom as well as from...
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At the end of November, Andrea finally moved out of the apartment we rented for her following her discharge from Craig Hospital last December. We are all relieved to now be marching through what we hope to be the final phase of Andrea’s recovery – the chapter before she is ready again to live in her own place, independently. When she was released as a hospital patient, Andrea still was not...
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Andrea walked into her gym last Tuesday night. Roughly 53 weeks after initially entering Craig Hospital via ambulance atop a stretcher with her body, face and mind seemingly frozen, we arrived at the same facility in Andrea’s Jetta, listening to Sublime, ready for her 5 p.m. personal training session. She rode from the parking lot to the hallway outside the Peak Center in her manual...
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Due to tech problems, some or possibly all of our subscribers didn’t get email alerts about last night’s post. If you received an alert, apologies for a second one. If you’ve already checked this out this via the many Facebook shares, we thank you. – Team Andrea One year ago tonight, a few minutes before 7, Andrea entered the intersection of...
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One year ago tonight, a few minutes before 7, Andrea entered the intersection of East Bayaud Avenue and South Steele Street. Her life seemingly had fallen, finally, into perfect order. The dean’s list at college. A part-time job at her favorite mall. Her own apartment. Independent at age 20. One European trip under her belt. Other global adventures surely to follow. She left that...
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