The past year has been incredibly difficult for our entire family, but we would not be where we are today without the love and support of so many friends, teachers, family, customers and community members – we really want to send out a heartfelt thank you to EVERYONE who has offered prayers, encouragement, kind thoughts, and time, in order to help our family.

In the early days after the accident everyone in the community showed their support by brining food, offering transportation to the hospital in Halifax, and just by asking about Charbel and sharing their stories about him in the store. We would like to thank every one of our customers and members of the community who have shown such caring and understanding for our family since the beginning of this tragedy. From making us thanksgiving dinner, to taking us to the hospital, to offering to work in the store, you made our lives easier and this difficult situation much easier to deal with. Thank you all!
We would also like to thank all the doctors and nurses at the Hants Community Hospital for making Charbel’s daily life as comfortable as possible and for providing him with such wonderful care. We would also like to say a special thank you to the priests and pastors in the community for holding special prayers for Charbel at their churches, and for coming to visit him in the hospital. For all those that continue to hold prayer groups for Charbel’s recovery – please continue these prayers, we really believe that they will be answered some day.

Thank you to the teachers, staff, and students at Kings-Edgehill School for their support in the early days of the accident, and for continuing to come and visit Charbel at home and in the hospital. Charbel really enjoys watching the video that Mrs. Zimmer and the staff and students at Kings made for Charb – he loves watching the rugby boys play!

Finally, we would like to thank everyone in our family for their support and prayers for Charbel’s recovery. Thanks to his aunt Rita for coming to NS right after the accident. Thank you to his uncles and cousins from France for spending the summer with us here and keeping Charbel entertained. Teta and Jedo, Charbel loves you so much and your presence makes everything a lot easier! A HUGE thank you to Charbel’s aunt Layla for being like a second mother to Charbel and spending so much time with him at the hospital when Norma had to be home with the rest of the family. To all our family members (from Canada, to California, to France and Lebanon) that have continued to pray for Charbel’s recovery, we truly believe that our prayers will be answered. We really appreciate all your love, energy and prayers – keep hoping and asking for a miracle!

To everyone that works with Charbel on a daily and weekly basis, volunteering their time, energy, and expertise to find new ways to stimulate, relax and encourage him – our family is very grateful to have friends like you that are so dedicated to our son’s recovery. It means the world to us to know that Charbel has such wonderful individuals helping him toward recovery.

A lot of Thank you’s! But we are really at a loss to express our feelings to everyone that has been supporting us through this tragedy – we feel very blessed to have you all in our lives.