Much as I wanted a normal life and a family — which the doctors said was impossible because of the accident — I never seriously considered ending the marriage
When my husband Tuli went out to do some shopping about a month after our wedding I did not dream it would be the last time I would see him walking normally.
On his way to the supermarket a car hit him resulting in multiple internal injuries and a permanent limp.
I was a naive young newlywed but my naiveté? was quickly replaced with way too much knowledge about hospitals and surgeries and rehab and trauma therapy.
Much as I would have liked to have a normal life and a family — which the doctors said would be impossible because of the accident — I never seriously considered ending the marriage. I couldn’t in good conscience abandon the person who had stood beside me under the chuppah as he pledged to honor and provide for me. If Hashem had handed me this nisayon I wasn’t going to run away from it. Apparently I told myself my tafkid in this world was to care for my husband not to raise children.
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