Today I'm grateful for...
My wife sharing her experiences
Spending quality time together
My health
Getting to opportunity to exercise
These two days have been busy with medical appointments at the cancer clinic. Lulu and I made the trip down for follow up checks to the surgery a week or so ago, and we decided to stay over night (it wouldn't work to have all the doctors appointments in the same day, to make it easier we decided to do a over night instead of two separate trips down). We will try our best to have a marriage encounter while here, but all the stress of the medical appointments the marital bonding wasn't ideal (turns out it wasn't even that enjoyable).
We did find enjoyment in sharing a dinner with Lulu's friends that have been sharing similar experiences with this disease. Lulu's had the opportunity to befriend a couple of similarly aged women that were diagnosed very near the time Lulu was. It turns out that each of the two women have been moving through the challenges of breast cancer treatment, surgeries, and the hardest part of having cancer; the disruptions to your life. I think that it's important for her to share her feelings with women that know what it's like to go through these mental taxing times?
At dinner (a placed called Rose's on Union Street) I felt the bond between the survivors. They talked about their feelings, how their bodies feel now, and what is in store for them in the future? Three people brought together by the unfortunate circumstances of having breast cancer. Throughout the evening (Rose's was quite good food by the way) I noticed the emotional boost to my wife's mood, and she was more passionate than I had seen her in a while. I think the sharing of cancer related experiences and the I'm not the only one going through this was allowing her to open up? I learned things about what she's been dealing with these last 18 months that I hadn't even known before. I was slowly learning that even the husband isn't privy to all the facts of the battle with this monster.
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