Our anniversary!
Tom and I have been married 8 years today!! I love him more today than the day I married him and I'm not sure how that happened!! I loved him sooo much the day we married and love him soo much today. I've always heard people say that they love their spouse so much more today then the day they married and I never understood that until now!! When Tom and I got married we were just happy to be together and had no worries so loving each other was easy. We got married and sometime after that not sure what happened just maybe married life settled in and we were just together. Still loved each other but just existing together. I didn't always treat him very good was mean and hateful towards him. I had been married before Tom and he was a jerk so I guess I was just waiting for Tom to turn into a jerk but he never did!! As most of you already know as of October 6 Tom and I got the news that I had breast cancer at the age of 36!! I just can't tell you how that diagnosis has changed the way I look and feel for my husband!! I am a very independant person so to not be able to do everything for myself and to have to have Tom do all for me really challenged me. Quite frankly I wasn't sure he was even up to the challenge and for sure he would never be able to meet my standards!! Well he is up for the challenge and he has met my standards and exceeded my standards!! I can honestly say that this is the man that I want on my side when the going gets rough!! Tom you are the best husband I could of ever dreamed of. I pray the Lords blessings on you each and everyday!! You are the man of my dreams and I can only pray that we will have a long and wonderful marriage!! I know times aren't always easy or happy but with Jesus at the front of our relationship we can get through ANYTHING together!! I love you very much!! Happy anniversay and I pray for many many many more together!!
That is so sweet! You two are an awesome couple, and I have seen such a positive change in you guys since your diagnosis! God does work ALL things together for good! Happy Anniversary-any plans? Looking forward to lunch tomorrow!
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I happened upon your blog when I was looking over Walls Service website and saw something about a fund raiser for you, and then the link to your blog. Reading your words about your husband Tom, about your anniversary that was just 4 days ago, how much you truly love him, and that it grows with each passing day. I know that feeling. I feel that everyday with my own husband, who has been by my side for over 16 years now, though we have been married for just over 15.
I knew out there that there was one guy for me, but it seemed that I found all the wrong guys instead. Then one day, he and I found one another, both of us in a relationship at the time, but they weren't working out. So we decided to get together, as we had met one another at different times over a span of 5 to 7 years and we just clicked. I knew then that he was the one for me, that he would be by my side each and every moment of my life.
Even through the frustration of dealing with health issues that has placed me in a position of not being able to do anything more than lay in bed, either in tears from excruciating pain or not having the ability to stand up and walk around due to my lower back seizing up. He has been there for me when I feel like I have hit enough walls with different doctors telling me there is nothing wrong, to telling me that I will be in a wheelchair in 5 years and there is nothing they can do to keep that from happening. Holding me and wiping the tears from my face as I deal with everything that is going on with me and my medical issues, which have become a list longer than it should be for someone at the age of 37.
You have a man who cares for you deeply, who will be by your side for each moment you have to push through as you fight the battle of breast cancer. With him there with you, you have a wonderful chance of surviving this speed bump in your long road of life that is in front of you, waiting for you to pull yourself over and to continue on. God has blessed you with someone special, just as he's done with me. Your soul mate, your forever love, your husband of 8 years and counting.
I wish you all the best, you are in my thoughts and prayers each and every day from now on. I will continue to read your blog to see how you are faring, but I know, with what little I have read about you, you are strong and as I have said before, you have the love of your life standing on one side of you, and God on the other side, each will hold you as you cross this speed bump of life.
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Hey Shannon! Just checking in with you...thinking about you lately..and wanted to say hi. So, "hi"
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Haven't heard from you on here for awhile. Hoping the kemo is coming to an end and this journey for you will soon be history.
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Congratulations Shannon and Tommy. I understand exactly what your saying! I miss you guys. Love you.
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