Husband holds sign outside for wife who has to go to chemotherapy alone because of coronavirus

Husband holds sign for wife who has to do chemotherapy alone in a hospital

Albert Conner has been to every doctor's appointment, every test and everychemotherapy appointment with his wife Kelly Conner since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January.

When Conner, a father of three, found out that he would not be able to attend his wife's chemotherapy appointment because of hospital restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, he showed his support in a different way.

Albert Conner, 44, held a sign outside MD Anderson Cancer Center in Sugar Land, Texas, that read, "I can't be with you but i'm here." It also said "love you" and included a thank you to staff working inside the hospital's walls.

"I didn’t feel right not being a part of it because I had promised her that I would be there every step of the way and I felt like I would be breaking my word," Albert Conner told "Good Morning America." "I just got a poster board and our kids and I colored it."

Kelly Conner, 40, thought her husband was at home in Missouri City, Texas, because she had just driven herself to the hospital after telling him she would be fine to go alone. Then, she received a text from him saying he was outside in the parking lot.

"As soon as he texted me, I just kind of lifted up in my chair a little bit to peer out the window and he was just right there," she said. "It immediately brought tears to my eyes and I felt a love for him right then in that moment, that he would do that for me."

"I think I kind of gasped and the nurse turned around and said, 'What’s wrong?' And then she saw I was looking out the window and she looked out and started to tear up too," she recalled.

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