John and I have lots of memories from this time in our life 10 years ago. I thought I'd share a few and my last post from today was getting too long so I had to create a new one.
1. The doctor he saw at Moffit's name was Dr. Albert Einstein...who wouldn't trust this guy?
2. We were all in college and broke as could be of course, eating ramen noodles to survive...John was trying to work full-time and go to school full-time and times were hard. Our friend Rebecca one night at a Bible Study gave John $100 as a gift. This was a lot for a college student and all she had saved for the month or so for herself. She just did it out of love and care for John and obedience to God.
3. We remember the night at Bible study at the Steigners house where he told our closest friends. They all sat around him and put their hands on him and prayed for him.
4. Dave Bearden and Chris Basham went with him to Shands in Gainesville to Bank Sperm (just a long for the ride of course :) What are friends for.
5. His best friends to this day sometimes call him "Uniball".
6. Every friend that John has ever had since this time has called him with some kind of self diagnosed groin or testicular pain that they think is cancer. They all want to talk to John for him to tell them what to do. It is actually comical at this point.
7. John's mom had a cancer policy on the family (who knew it would be her son that it would get used for) and when all was over and she got the payout it equalled I believe over $10,000 in which she gave to us when we were getting married. We used this to put a down payment on our first house and buy appliances.
8. The kids call Daddy's illness "the cancer germ".
9. When John was in the middle of his radiation, we went to Destin to visit Dave and Debi Bearden for the weekend...He was so sick and didn't have much of an appetite. We went to this restaurant called Goatfeathers which was a fancy seafood restaurant. John and I were going to split a meal b/c of his nausea but they wanted to charge us something like $7 to split a meal. David almost walked out...how ridiculous!
10. When John woke up from surgery he was so pumped up on pain pills and anesthesia. Dave Bearden and I went back to talk to him and see how he was doing and he was talking so out of his head and saying some of the funniest things. He had us crying we were laughing so hard! He also puked on me in the car on the way home :(
11. Apparently, Chris Basham went with John to pick up my ring after it had been sized for the big night and was the first to try my ring on :)
12. John knew of a girl named Harriet Brown that had started going to our church that also worked in the ultrasound department at TMH. He used to see her at work when he worked in the ER. He was praying as he went for his ultrasound of his "male parts" that it would not be Harriet that did the scan and it was NOT to his relief! She ended up marrying his friend Jeff later that year just before John and I got married :)
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