'Til death do us part. Those are vows a local woman promises to keep in an unconventional way after her husband suffered a catastrophic car crash.
Kristen Armstrong even changed careers to learn how to communicate with him better and is taking TikTok by storm with her love story. She vividly remembers the early days with Brandon Smith when they were high school sweethearts.
Things were going great until she got a phone call from the Houston Police Department asking her to get to the hospital immediately. She didn't even know if her husband was alive. This was two years into their marriage in 2008 after Brandon suffered life-threatening injuries in a car crash. "He has spasticity where his muscles are tight, so he doesn't have good control of his muscles and good motor programming for his muscles, which affects him physically and cognitively altogether. He's not able to care for himself. He needs 24-hour care to help get through the day," says Kristen.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku and Google Android TV! She says on days, he can say a few words. He sometimes calls her "little sis." She feels he does feel like a brother to her now. Kristen changed her career from an art historian to a medical worker after witnessing Brandon's tender, loving care at TIRR Memorial Hermann.
"James loves Brandon very much! If you ask him who is a part of our family, he names our kids, me and Brandon, so he sees him very much as a part of our family, and I'm very grateful for that. I think it's easy to take for granted at times because he's so good in that way. But yeah, James is very, very unique in the way that he loves him," says Kristen.
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