‘It’s a miracle.’ Oxford nurse who lost home in flood reunited with sonogram

When Marcucio’s home collapsed due to unprecedented flooding, the sonogram was washed away traveling from the creek next to the house down the Housatonic River.

Marissa Alter

Aug 22, 2024, 1:41 AM

Updated 29 days ago

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Randi Marcucio, of Oxford, lost a lot in Sunday’s devastating storm, but it’s safe to say not her faith, especially after she was reunited with a precious keepsake, thanks to a stranger from Westport.
“It's a miracle,” Marcucio said as she held the newly returned sonogram of her now 3-year-old son. “It wasn't in a frame! It wasn't in a Ziploc bag. It was a strip so there were maybe four to six pictures of the sonogram. She only found the two, but they’re in great shape. You would've never known that they took a river trip from Oxford to Westport 35 miles in the water!”
When Marcucio’s home collapsed due to unprecedented flooding, the sonogram was washed away traveling from the creek next to the house down the Housatonic River and into Long Island Sound where it ended up in the water at Compo Beach.
That's where it caught the eye of another mom, Nancy Lewis, of Westport, while she was taking her daily walk Monday afternoon.
“I saw something that looked like a photograph, and I thought, ‘Wow, that's interesting.’ And when I had it in my hand, I could see that it was a sonogram,” Lewis told News 12. “I see it has Randi’s name on it and date of birth. I don't know who this person is. I'm assuming a local Westporter. Maybe it fell out of someone's bag, so I said, ‘Well, let me take this home and return it hopefully to its owner.’”
Lewis said when she later searched Marcucio's name online, the first thing that came up was the GoFundMe page started to help her and her son.
“I was heartbroken to see the devastation of her losing her home. And reading her story, seeing that she's a single mom working as an ER nurse, I could just imagine her being the kind of person that just cares for everybody. The least I could do was to return this sonogram photo that might be significant to her,” Lewis explained.
So, Wednesday morning, Lewis made the drive up to Oxford to reunite Marcucio with the first picture she ever had of her son.
“It's incredible! I mean, you can't make it up,” Marcucio told News 12.
The sonogram was always special to Marcucio, but now, it has even more meaning.
“This is something that has to be cherished. It’s a story in it of itself,” Marcucio said. “When I do rebuild or in my next home with my son, that's going on the wall in a frame this time. It's a positive thing from a bad situation.”