Since December 2015, Brad's wife Alissa has been receiving chemotherapy at the Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center in Omaha. Recently, Alissa underwent three surgeries and went in for her last chemo treatment. With the help of their four children and their small yet tight-knit community in Nebraska, Brad decided to plan a very special hospital surprise.
Brad wanted to celebrate his brave and beautiful wife with flowers, and provide a donation in her name towards breast cancer research.
But the doting husband took to Facebook and explained that a dozen roses just didn't seem like enough…
"Today is my wife’s last chemotherapy treatment," Brad wrote on Facebook. "She has amazed me with her strength, courage, and positive attitude through it all. She still has a few surgeries ahead of her but completing chemotherapy is huge milestone in her journey.
I wanted to do something special during this last treatment to celebrate the end of her chemo and to show her the tremendous love and support she has from her friends and family."
"I also wanted to honor her fight against cancer by providing a donation in her name towards breast cancer research.
To accomplish this I secretly sent a text to several of Alissa’s friends and family."
"I asked them to help me surprise her by showering her in roses during her last treatment. I arranged for our local flower shop to take the orders.
Each rose was purchased for $10.00 with all of the proceeds being donated to Susan G. Komen towards breast cancer research.
I was amazed when the orders started rolling in!"
"We quickly reached 100 roses, then 300 roses, then 400. When we reached 500 roses I told the flower shop to stop ordering roses and let all the remaining orders go entirely to the Susan G. Komen donation. Together over 170 families wanted to purchase roses and we ended up raising over $4500 for breast cancer research. The flower shop placed the roses in 36 vases and then put them in 6 small wicker baskets.
Alissa’s two teen aged daughters and four close friends (AKA Alissa’s Crew) made the delivery."
"After presenting the rose baskets to my wife we shared them with the other cancer patients receiving treatment today as a gift from our family.
The joy of sharing these roses with the other cancer patients was one of my favorite parts. Many had tears as they read the card I wrote for them."
"Thanks so much for all the support from our friends and family!"
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