{"id":5719,"date":"2014-06-24T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2014-06-24T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:47:14","slug":"paralyzed-man-gets-surprise-lift-to-sons-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/paralyzed-man-gets-surprise-lift-to-sons-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed Man Gets Surprise Lift To Son&#8217;s Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;siteSection=wtic_localnews&amp;videoId=26299343\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/2014\/06\/23\/paralyzed-man-gets-surprise-lift-to-sons-graduation\/#\">Read the original Fox CT\u00a0story here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/bio\/louisa-moller\/\">LOUISA\u00a0MOLLER<\/a> &#8212;\u00a0Fox\u00a0CT<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A paralyzed Connecticut man was given a special gift Monday by a generous ambulance company. Frank Foster was transported from New Britain to Danbury by the Ambulance Service of Manchester to see his only son graduate from Bethel High School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNone of us expected this. If it wasn\u2019t for my friends at the ambulance company, it wouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d Foster said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Foster has spent most of his time in hospitals since a devastating incident a few years ago. He suffered from an aortic aneurism resulting in a spinal cord injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI was in my living room and all the sudden, I dropped to the floor. Luckily my phone was next to me,\u201d Foster said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He had discussed his son Paul\u2019s graduation with ASM employees but did not learn that the company was transporting him, free of charge, until a few months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSurprise is an understatement,\u201d Foster said.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/2014\/06\/23\/paralyzed-man-gets-surprise-lift-to-sons-graduation\/#\">Read more from Fox 61 here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the original Fox CT\u00a0story here&#8230; LOUISA\u00a0MOLLER &#8212;\u00a0Fox\u00a0CT A paralyzed Connecticut man was given a special gift Monday by a generous ambulance company. 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