Zach Zarembinski and Isabelle Richard met after they were both injured and ended up in the same hospital. They reconnected years later and fell in love
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- In 2018, Zach Zarembinski was injured on the football field, and nine days later, Isabelle Richard was in a car accident
- The teens from St. Paul, Minn., had traumatic brain injuries and were in comas at the same hospital, where their mothers became friends
- Years later, they began dating, and now, they’re getting married
After meeting as teens, two survivors of traumatic brain injuries are getting married.
In 2018, Zach Zarembinski, then 18, and Isabelle Richard, then 16, both ended up at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minn., after suffering devastating accidents. Zarembinski had been injured on the football field on Oct. 27, and Richard had been in a car crash en route to her grocery store job on Nov. 5.
Both had traumatic brain injuries — and both had been placed in medically induced comas. Their mothers, who became friends at the hospital, were told their children might not survive.
“I remember Isabelle was laying there. She had shards of glass still in her hair. And she was unconscious,” Richard’s mother, Esther Wilzbacher, recalled to KARE 11 in an emotional interview…