| Posted By |
Message |
Dani
Life is about choices.
Member since 5/05 6532 total posts
Name:
Dani
|
a miraculous update
bride recovered and is walking down the aisle!
|
Posted 10/15/05 8:34 AM  |
| |
|
Long Island Weddings
Long Island's Largest Bridal Resource |
bklyngirl
COULD THIS BE MY YEAR??
Member since 6/05 15758 total posts
Name:
Gail
|
Re: a miraculous update
this sure will be a tear jerker during the ceremony
|
| Posted 10/15/05 8:38 AM |
| |
|
Dani
Life is about choices.
Member since 5/05 6532 total posts
Name:
Dani
|
Re: a miraculous update
Posted by bklyngirl
this sure will be a tear jerker during the ceremony
i know! 
|
| Posted 10/15/05 8:42 AM |
| |
|
BabyAvocado
Happy New Year
Member since 5/05 17334 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
Posted by bklyngirl
this sure will be a tear jerker during the ceremony
Definitely!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 8:45 AM |
| |
|
skygirl
Our prayers were answered:)
Member since 6/05 4919 total posts
Name:
Erica
|
Re: a miraculous update
I am so happy for them. Definitly a wedding to bring kleenex and hankies to
|
| Posted 10/15/05 9:37 AM |
| |
|
Diane
Hope is Contagious....catch it
Member since 5/05 30683 total posts
Name:
D
|
Re: a miraculous update
that is amazing
|
| Posted 10/15/05 9:37 AM |
| |
|
DebG
Pick a cause & stand up for it
Member since 5/05 18602 total posts
Name:
The cure IS worse!
|
Re: a miraculous update
what a tremendous story.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 9:54 AM |
| |
|
lvdolphins
My Loves!
Member since 5/05 46292 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
Read this in the paper today! Its awesome!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:09 AM |
| |
|
CowgirlChick97
Nike. Just do it.
Member since 5/05 3303 total posts
Name:
Brianna
|
Re: a miraculous update
pls...i cried just reading it while eating my bagel.....everyone will be in tears!!!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:12 AM |
| |
|
MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
Member since 5/05 26170 total posts
Name:
MrsERod™®
|
Re: a miraculous update
can someone please copy and paste the story. the link won't open for me! 
thx
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:13 AM |
| |
|
SoinLove
Making big changes
Member since 5/05 16541 total posts
Name:
Kristin
|
Re: a miraculous update
ctober 15, 2005
For Shari Kurzrok's family and friends, watching her walk down the aisle Saturday will be nothing short of a miracle.
Three months ago, the 31-year-old public relations executive collapsed without warning in her Manhattan apartment. For three weeks, she lay in NYU Medical Center in Manhattan, struggling for life as her liver failed her.
The next three weeks were filled with uncertainty for Kurzrok's family, said Morton Kurzrok, Shari's father. Friends and co-workers started Web sites and petitioned the media hoping to get the word out and find a liver. Kurzrok's family held a vigil at her bedside while she was on a breathing machine.
On Aug. 6, Kurzrok, who was raised in Great Neck, underwent her liver transplant. Nearly three weeks later, she was discharged from the hospital and began physical therapy to increase her strength.
"I was just focused on getting through what I was going through at the time," Kurzrok said Friday, in the midst of last-minute wedding errands. "It was one day at a time."
Doctors still aren't certain what caused Kurzrok's liver to fail. Dr. Lewis W. Teperman, director of transplantation at NYU Medical Center, suspects she suffered from Wilson's disease, a genetic condition that can cause excessive copper buildup in the liver.
"She was very yellow. Her mind had failed and her kidneys had failed," Teperman said. "She was on a dialysis machine. She was so far gone. She's unbelievable lucky."
But Kurzrok overcame it all. And she did it with fiance Rob Schnall by her side. Shari and Robby, as she affectionately calls him, met in the summer of 2002 when they shared a ride from Fire Island to Manhattan with Tommy's Taxi, a local company that often makes that trip.
Kurzrok will tell you sparks didn't fly at first: "I didn't think he was my type and he thought I was too young -- well, younger than I really was."
But Kurzrok took Schnall's business card and the pair began an e-mail relationship that transformed into a date. Schnall proposed last November inside a Tommy's Taxi covered in rose petals and furnished with champagne.
The couple thought about postponing their wedding but "wanted to go ahead like we had planned," Kurzrok said.
So Saturday evening, they'll get married at the Woodbury Jewish Center. "Since this whole thing has happened, my outlook on life has changed a lot," Kurzrok said. "Every minute is a blessing for me."
While in the hospital, Kurzrok, who works at Ogilvy Public Relations in Manhattan and lives in Murray Hill, started the Shari Kurzrok Second Chance for Life Foundation to raise awareness about the need for organ donations.
For her father, the ordeal was surreal. When doctors first told him his daughter needed a liver, he spun around in the hospital hallway, assuming they were talking to someone else.
The near-tragedy "makes [the wedding] so much more vivid, important," he said, holding back tears. "It's a miracle."
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:21 AM |
| |
|
MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
Member since 5/05 26170 total posts
Name:
MrsERod™®
|
Re: a miraculous update
they're definitely going to need kleenex at that wedding!!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:25 AM |
| |
|
Jax430
Hi!
Member since 5/05 18919 total posts
Name:
Jackie
|
Re: a miraculous update
Oh wow...what a joyous wedding she wil have.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:31 AM |
| |
|
Tah-wee-ZAH
Kisses
Member since 5/05 15952 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
A miracle!!!
Wonderful news.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 11:43 AM |
| |
|
reggie
I love my boys!!
Member since 5/05 8044 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
What a strong and amazing woman she is.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 2:34 PM |
| |
|
Moehick
Ready for the sun!
Member since 5/05 30339 total posts
Name:
Properly perfect™
|
Re: a miraculous update
What a great story!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 2:45 PM |
| |
|
Booklady1017
Information Goddess
Member since 5/05 4149 total posts
Name:
Michelle
|
Re: a miraculous update
I'm happy to hear that for them. Good story!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 6:47 PM |
| |
|
MissJones
I need a nap!
Member since 5/05 22148 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
She looks amazing too! May that be the last of any hardships and only the beginning of a beautiful and tremendously happy life
|
| Posted 10/15/05 6:48 PM |
| |
|
Gertyrae
Peace out Homies!
Member since 5/05 20046 total posts
Name:
Gerty ®
|
Re: a miraculous update
What an amazing story! You can only wish wonderful things for them in the future and hope that this is the last hardship.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 8:18 PM |
| |
|
Shopaholic921
SUP..
Member since 10/05 5113 total posts
Name:
Brooke
|
Re: a miraculous update
That is so amazing!!! Besides being on the verge of tears reading the story, once I got to the part about how her FI proposed I got the chills beyond belief.
I'm so happy for them!
|
| Posted 10/15/05 8:19 PM |
| |
|
Shelly
She's 7!!!
Member since 8/05 14624 total posts
Name:
|
Re: a miraculous update
That's great. I know a few people who know her. I'm so happy to hear that.
|
| Posted 10/15/05 9:45 PM |
| |
|
