Love and health

You were there first time I stumbled
Will you be there, each time I fall
Will  you care for me forever
Darling promise you will love me most of all

You can count on me
I'll be true
Do you feel the same way I do
When times get hard
Will you see me through
What I need to know is, can I count on you

When the years have turned my hair to silver
Will you still wear that band of gold
Say you'll be here always beside me
Will I still have your hand to hold

You can count on me.......

Simple words to a simple but beautiful song by McBride and the Ride.  A song from the time my husband and I began our life . A song enjoyed by a 20 year old and 27 year old in 1991. Just 3 weeks after meeting , we became engaged. I was barely 20 when I committed my life to him. We married on what would've been my Mom's 50th birthday, July 14th.  These simple words to this song still have alot of meaning for us.

My handsome man has more silver in his hair than Brown and my blond has random silver strands. Each of my silver was earned because of health crisis and accidents.

We take our wedding vows seriously. Alot of people don't these days. But we do. I believe death will be the only thing to seperate us.

We've stayed true to eachother through good times and bad. Through sickness and health.

I've waited (& held his hand) during his upper GI, Colonoscopy, food poisoning, carpal tunnel surgery, chronic pain and seen a car fall on him. He's been there through my Tachycardia Episodes (my heart beats too fast), oral surgery, ear infections, pneumonia and my back surgery. Diabetes is part of our next journey together.

He's so supportive with my latest health crisis as I have been with his through the years. I was fortunate to have found him early in life. We are eachother's everything.

22 years later .... I still have his hand to hold, while we learn to cope with our changing health as we get older.

This is us 21 years ago.