"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.

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