“They couldn’t tell me if he was alive or not,” Armstrong, now 38, told TODAY.com. “I remember asking my mom, ‘What will I do if Brandon is gone?’ “Even though Brandon’s doctors warned me that if he did wake up, he would be forever changed because of his severe traumatic brain injury, I held onto hope that a miracle would happen and he’d be the same Brandon. "But he wasn’t. Every morning I woke up and I was hit by this train of sadness. I was grieving a living person, and that was very complicated and isolating.” She’d planned to spend the rest of her life with her ‘soulmate’, dreaming of having Smith’s kids.
