She laughs about it now. Or as much as you can laugh when you’ve lost most of the feeling in your body from the chest down.
“I think we are in such a state right now where it’s just a crazy world, we’re so divided on things,” Avalanche fan Ruby Cates said by phone from her room on the third floor of Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins. “Yet even the little things can bring people closer together.”
While the Avs were busy decimating the NHL the last eight weeks en route to snatching the Stanley Cup, Cates was receiving treatment for a neurological issue and a recent hernia.
