A Secret Santa surprises couple who nearly died of COVID-19 while traveling for work
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A Secret Santa is back and this Christmas is bigger than ever!
The EastIdahoNews.com team is busy helping a local man gift more than $500,000 this holiday season. A lot more. Secret Santa is a real person who wants to remain anonymous and hopes to help as many individuals in our community as he can.
We will be surprising deserving people and families every day from now until Christmas with gifts unique to their circumstances.
John Chapple works as a truck driver. In October, he and his wife, Margie, were on the road when they started to feel very sick. They made it to Pennsylvania and were taken by ambulance to the hospital. Both were diagnosed with COVID-19 and nearly died.
They spent five days together in the COVID unit and Margie was then transferred to the ICU. She spent 19 days in the hospital and John spent nine. They were finally released and able to return to their Rexburg home, where they found a water line had broken and flooded part of the house.
On top of all of this, Margie broke her nose within an hour of getting home and they are working on getting back on their feet.
Secret Santa asked the East Idaho News elves to go pay them a visit with a special gift. Watch the video above to see the surprise!
