Diane Sawyer hugs Everett's mother Patricia Dugas, while his fiancee Wiande Moore looks on. Everett asked Moore to marry him while he was still laid up in bed recovering.
"We've been talking about it for some time and I said I was going to do it," Everett said. "And I happened to get injured at the time when I said I was going to do it. It worked out like that and I had to keep my promise."
(Ida Astute/ABC)