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FORT MEYERS, Fla. (WFTX) — Renee Whisner remembers however bully it felt to person get-well-soon cards erstwhile she was successful the hospital. Now she wants to assistance chap veterans consciousness the aforesaid way.
Whisner is sending retired much than 3,000 Christmas cards to each veteran's infirmary and nursing location successful Florida. She got the thought portion recovering from her ain wounded 7 years ago.
After serving successful the Air Force, Whisner was paralyzed from the thorax down successful an car mishap portion surviving successful India successful 2014. While she recovered from country astatine a Tampa veteran’s hospital, Whisner’s religion sent her hundreds of cards.
“One of the nurses came successful and said I was the lone 1 that was receiving cards there, and I thought, ‘No way,’” Whisner said.
So this twelvemonth she’ll nonstop 3,161 cards astir the state. Many of the cards were donated, and they were filled with messages from children astatine six Collier County precocious schools.
Whisner’s mother, Mimi Treadway, and caregiver, Danielle Passage, addressed and stuffed the envelopes.
“Renee has a intent successful life. And it’s not to beryllium successful this seat and beryllium sad,” Treadway said. “It’s to bash things with her beingness that marque her happy. And this makes her precise happy, truthful I’m thankful for that.”
Whisner said her extremity is to grow adjacent twelvemonth and nonstop cards to veterans nationwide. She besides wants to amusement that that radical with disabilities tin inactive pb fulfilling lives.
“I’ve seen the veterans erstwhile they bash person stuff. And erstwhile I person things, I cognize that it’s exciting,” Whisner said. “If you don’t person immoderate friends and household that bash this, it takes idiosyncratic similar me.”
This communicative was primitively reported by Adam Fisher connected fox4now.com.
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