A worker at a long-term care home asked Ricky Brooks: "Are you excited to be with your wife?"
He nodded yes. A simple, understated response from the 28-year-old, reunited with his wife eight months after they were married.
Ricky has cerebral palsy. His wife, Nadia Brooks, lives with spina bifida.
The two tied the knot in September, but the long wait list for beds in long-term care homes kept the two apart.
The wait could've been longer, too. However, everyone close to Ricky and Nadia called politicians over the past few months, trying to get the couple to the top of the wait list.
"Now that we're together. I feel whole. I feel like a wife. I feel like a best friend," said Nadia.
The couple will live together at Ottawa's Montfort Long-Term Care Centre.
They first met six years ago at Ottawa's Saint Vincent's Continuing Care Hospital.
"They were driving their chairs together, and you just really knew that they liked each other," said Neil Ramnarine, a physiotherapist at Saint Vincent's.
Now their love has come together again, and Nadia says she wants others to hear this message.
"It doesn't mean that you're in a wheelchair, if you're disabled that you can't find love," said Nadia.
With a report from CTV Ottawa's Catherine Lathem
