But it was beautiful anyway.
I felt honored to be asked to write about the wedding in this column, which was published Feb. 21.
But what I didn’t know then was that on the day the column was published, Rudy almost died.
“They told me he wasn’t going to make it,” Deborah said. “They were taking him to the ICU and I wouldn’t see him alive again.”
Hospital workers let her FaceTime with him as they wheeled him to the ICU, ostensibly to say her goodbyes.
She wasn’t ready for that.
Doctors gave them three options: Put him on a ventilator, put him in hospice or keep fighting.