A New Orleans woman stopped to help an injured man on the highway right after her wedding ceremony while still wearing her beautiful white dress.
Heather Ramsey Schubert had just gotten married on Saturday night, November 22. She works as a nurse at Ochsner Medical Center.
She and her new husband were driving home on Interstate 10 when they saw something that made her heart drop. A man was lying across the road. His car sat there with all the airbags blown out.
Heather didn’t think twice. She got out of the car in her wedding dress and ran to help.
“When you’re a nurse and you always put other people first, that’s always my first instinct,” Heather told WDSU.
She got down next to the man and started checking him right away. She looked at his pupils. She checked for injuries. What she found worried her. The man had trauma on the left side of his body. His pupils didn’t react to light. That’s serious. That means real trouble.
Heather stayed right there with the stranger until the ambulance arrived. She didn’t leave him alone. We don’t know how the man is doing now, but Heather said she hopes he recovers fully.
“There’s never a question, there’s never hesitation,” she explained. “That’s just something that I will always probably be the person to run into the accident to see if I can help.”
Steven Tafoya works as a critical care paramedic. He said what Heather did was amazing.
“What this lady did, on her wedding day no less, is just remarkable and just shows her commitment to health care in general,” he said.
Heather told reporters she wouldn’t change anything about that night, even though it wasn’t how she planned to end her wedding day.
“I would hope that anybody, whether they’re a nurse or not, if they see someone in trouble, would run and do the same thing,” she said.
We are called to love others the way Christ loved us. But that’s not always easy, is it?
Sometimes love costs us something. It might be our time, our comfort, or our plans. But our Heavenly Father sees every act of kindness we show, and He promises us a reward in heaven for every token of love we give to others.
Heather could have kept driving on the biggest day of her life. She could have thought someone else would stop. But she responded to the call, just like the Good Samaritan in the Bible who stopped when others passed by.
Let’s follow her example. Let’s set aside our own priorities and conveniences when someone needs help. That’s how we show Christ’s love to the world. That’s how others see Jesus in us.
Please pray for this crash victim’s complete recovery and for more hearts like Heather’s.
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