A faithful, devoted husband sits in a lawn chair outside his wife’s hospital room with a homemade sign that reads, “I can’t be with you, but I’m here. I love you.” The man’s wife has been undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer and could not see her husband in person due to social distancing precautions during the ongoing virus situation.
That didn’t stop husband Albert Conner, from Missouri City, Texas, from comforting his wife, Kelly, however.
She woke up early one morning in late March and received a text from Albert and looked outside the window to see him sitting next to his vehicle with the sign that he and their children had made for her.
Written below the tender words was a message of gratitude to the hardworking medical workers at the hospital. “Thank you for all thank you to all the staff,” it read in underlined all-caps.
Kelly took a selfie with her husband in the background and posted the photo on Facebook with a caption that read, “No visitors allowed for chemo due to the virus. But that didn’t stop. Albert L. Connor.
“Thank you for all your continued love and support.”
The post soon garnered major media attention. Albert, who spoke to Good Morning America, shared, “I didn’t feel right, not being a part of it, because I had promised her that I would be there every step of the way. And I felt like I would be breaking my word.
“I just got a poster board and our kids and I colored it.”
Kelly has been battling breast cancer, and the chemotherapy is expected to continue through May. Meanwhile, no visitors are allowed during Kelly’s treatment due to social distancing restrictions as a result of the virus.
She said during an interview, “As soon as he texted me, I just kind of lifted up in my chair a little bit to peer out the window and he was just right there.
“It immediately brought tears to my eyes. And I felt a love for him right then in that moment, that he would do that for me.”
According to Albert, some of the staff at the hospital were so inspired by him that they said that he “was the reason that they come to work.” “The attention made me uncomfortable, but it made me feel good and was very touching,” he added.
Albert, who is a locksmith by trade, closed his business temporarily in order to protect his wife, who is immunocompromised and vulnerable to infection. Meanwhile, his touching message is surely a comfort that his promise will not go unfulfilled.
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