"I think the thing I appreciated the most was when people said, how are you doing? And I could just be like, this sucks. This is really shitty," she says. "It's a big thing that I offer to other people of just being able to say what happened to you sucks." You can appreciate it for what it is and not everyone will have to go through that, he adds. 'You do have a long road ahead of you,' his mother-in-law tells him. She also shares her story with CNN iReport.
Rebecca Kaduru was driving home... then woke up in an ambulance. She'd been in involved in an accident and her face was smashed. Living in Uganda, she struggled to receive appropriate care for her injuries - making her healing process dishearteningly slow and painful.
It was then that Rebecca stumbled across an episode of The Happiness Lab about JR Martinez - an army veteran badly burned in Iraq. His story brought her comfort and the confidence to keep on her path to recovery. We hear about Rebecca's ordeal and introduce her to JR.
NEXT TIME: To give you a chance to hear the episode that inspired Rebecca, we'll republish it on The Happiness Lab feed.
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