On May 3, my wife Amour suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm at home. She spent weeks in the ICU in Tulsa, and since that day she's been fighting her way back.

I know that if our positions were reversed, she'd do everything she possibly could for me, just like I'm trying to do for her. That's just who she is.

As most of you know, Amour has been a teacher for most of her adult life. She started as a substitute, spent years teaching at Broken Arrow North Intermediate and Broken Arrow Senior High, and has been at Bishop Kelley for the last ten years. She spent her career showing up for other people, pulling resources and materials, going to conferences, and finding a myriad of ways to pass on what she taught. She cared deeply about what she taught and the people she taught it to.

She's a fighter and she doesn't give up easily. Stubborn and strong, sarcastic, snarky and witty, sweet and loving, and all of that is still shining through. That's why we make such a great team.

Throughout all of this, she's still her.

A few weeks ago I sat with her and told her how I'd been handling things in her classroom, taking care of her classroom plants and all the other things in between that she handled so gracefully. I've asked her a few times during all of this if I was doing okay. She answered by calling me her "Mister" and "The Fixer." That's what she calls me. She knows me, and she knows I've got her.

Today Amour is at Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, one of the leading neuro rehab programs in the country. Her voice is slowly coming back. She reads, understands what's happening around her, follows conversations, laughs, and gives me a sly smile when I make a joke.

The work ahead is physical. She's rebuilding her strength and working toward standing and walking again. This road will be measured in months, not weeks, but she keeps showing up and giving more every day.

I've been by her side since day one, and I've been fortunate enough to keep working from her bedside. That's let me stay involved, learn everything I can about her care, and catch the little things that fall through the cracks. Watching her progress from where we started to where she is now has been a blessing, and I want to do everything I can to keep that momentum going.

As folks know, I'm not one to ask for help. It's not how I'm built apparently. But so many people have asked what they can do, and this is the only way I know how to answer that and let people give or help as they see fit.

Donations will help us with:

Housing and travel: While Amour is inpatient at Baylor, I'm traveling between Tulsa and Dallas and staying near the hospital. The team I work with has been incredibly gracious in letting me stay with her while keeping up with my projects and responsibilities, but I'm still dividing my time between her bedside, work, and everything waiting for us at home.

Preparing our home: Our house will need to be made accessible before Amour can safely come home. That will likely include wheelchair platform lifts inside and outside, along with other modifications based on what she needs. I want her to come home to a house she can actually live in, not one that creates another obstacle for her.

To me, this is the part of marriage where "in sickness and in health" stops being something you say during a ceremony and becomes something you do without thinking.

I'm doing my best to help her the only way I know how: finding every resource I can, staying beside her, and giving her the best chance possible to recover and get back to the life we were building together.

Honestly, the kind words, prayers, messages, and thoughts have carried both of us through the past two and a half months. We've been overwhelmed, especially me, by the sheer amount of people who have come out of the woodwork to support our little family. You all mean the world to us.

If you're able to donate or share this page with someone who knows Amour, we'd be incredibly grateful. Whether you donate, share, send a message, or simply keep her in your thoughts, please know how much it means to both of us.

Thank you, truly.

Nick