The Costco Guy

Monday, November 12, 2018

My husband got to walk on the beach with me again thanks to this modified Segway

at November 12, 2018

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Taking care of a man who always insisted on doing all things physical

When Arlie and I were married, my first adjustment was learning not to open my own door. He wanted to open the door for me always. He wanted...

Arlie's response to a diagnosis of terminal cancer with about 2 1/2 years to live

Four years ago, receiving a prognosis of two and a half years to live, Arlie posted this on Facebook. What would you do differently tomorr...
The Costco Guy

My husband was the strongest guy I knew (physically and it turned out mentally also). He could scale our wall and hoist himself onto the so...

Search This Blog

Pages

Home

About Me

Shari Smith: This blog is about me, my husband, and our experience with MS and a community who showed up in a way that completely altered the direction of our lives. Arlie worked for Costco for over 20 years and when he was diagnosed not only with MS, but three years later with terminal Kidney Cancer, the community created a secret Facebook group called Arlie’s Angels and presented us with a beach vacation from the money they raised. Arlie protested that he did not want the vacation, but would like for them to make him the number one fundraiser for Costco’s annual UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital campaign. He had been number six in the U.S. and Canada in Costco’s fundraiser in a previous year, and his dream was to be number one. March 10, 2015 over fifty people from the community surprised Arlie at work, presenting us with the vacation (regardless of his previous protests), and two local news channels showed up for the ambush. The story went viral. If you google “The Costco Guy”, the story will still be on the first page. As a result of the story going viral, people were coming into the Danville Costco and literally handing Arlie money faster than he could get it to a cash register.

View my complete profile

Report Abuse

Labels

Arlie (1)
Caregiver (1)
death (1)
Heaven (1)
Jesus (1)
Kidney Cancer (1)
Marriage (1)
Marriage Counseling (1)
MS (3)
Multiple Sclerosis (1)
PPMS (2)
Primary Progressive MS (1)
Primary Progrssive MS (1)
Terminal Cancer (2)
Terminal Illness (1)
The Costco Guy (1)

Blog Archive

December 2018 (1)
November 2018 (4)

Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.