Community support -- Rob Wiley medical expenses

Lawyers, liberal religionists, and plenty of others know Rob Wiley for caring friendship, timely legal counsel, and his booming, Arkansas-raised public speaking voice. He’s long provided laughs (intentional and otherwise), financial and logistical support, and company at many a sporting event – complete with gentle words of guidance toward basketball officials.

For years, Rob ran, including two marathons. He walked, including countless rounds of golf, speed-shopping at H-E-B with his kids, and traversing The Woodlands Mall with his partner Karyl Paige. He's lived a vigorous lifestyle.

That came to an abrupt halt on September 8, when Rob suddenly lost the ability to walk, and had to undergo emergency back surgery. He’s spent the past seven weeks in a Houston-area hospital navigating a series of bizarre medical setbacks. It’s been, physically and mentally, a trying time for him and the Wiley family.

The sudden injury and ongoing post-surgery complications have hampered his ability to operate and maintain his law practice, Stewart & Wiley PLLC, which he founded with his late wife, Ida Stewart, in the mid-2000s.

Rob has done much for many people. He helped, partially or fully, fund his five children’s college education, and today all five have bachelor’s degrees or beyond. He is a past president of Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church north of Houston, a past president of the Texas Freedom of Information Foundation, and a budding writer and novelist, building off of his lifelong love of reading. He now faces rebuilding his entire life without the tools and implements of youth.

His family hopes, in his time of instant and unanticipated need, that those he has supported and cherished over the past decades will come to his aid.

Insurance covers only so much of the need he now has. The funds raised will go toward his medium and longer-term care needs. The injury means he cannot walk for at least the next several months, and for an as-yet-unknown time, he will need in-home care after a stint in assisted living.

Rob is coordinating with his son Kenny, his partner Karyl, and Northwoods UU, about visits and phone calls to maintain his spirits.

Amounts small, larger and in between are most welcome and gratefully received by the Wiley family. For alternative forms of giving, or to send Rob well wishes, contact his son Kenny.

Please spread the word in your networks and put in your own words what Rob means to you.