Happy 35th Anniversary

I know that I wrote on Friday we’d be covering prostate cancer treatment with proton beam today, but I’d like to take today’s post and go a different way. Prostate cancer will be covered tomorrow.
I’d like to tell everyone reading this, that my wife and I are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary today.
Mary Ann and I have been through a lot over these 35 years of marriage. We have been blessed with 4 children, two girls and 2 boys. We’ve also been blessed with 6 grandchildren, 5 girls, Lauren (5), Christina (4), Megan (3), Keira (3) and Hannah (1),and our newest, Noah, born May 28th. We have two sons-in-law and a daughter-in-law that we were very pleased to welcome into our family.
We’ve been through strikes at my employment at which we survived on $65 per week strike pay. We have many memories of God’s hand blessing us during those tough 8 months.
We have had many happy moments through the years. I consider the birth of our children and grandchildren to be some of the happiest. I remember looking out of the window when our first child was born in 1975 and wondering why traffic was still traveling on the Interstate. Didn’t they know that the world had just changed? A new baby had just been born and I thought that they should be stopped to pay tribute.
The death of one of our children, Brian, in April 2001, would indeed change our lives forever.
NOTE TO MARY ANN:
In February 2005 you began this trek with me with prostate cancer. You have understood as I chose proton beam therapy, even though it would mean me being away Monday through Friday for 9 weeks. Your support and care has helped me through. Thankfully protons spared you from doing some of the procedures that some wives are called on to do for their husbands who choose other treatment options.
Through all of our highs and lows, God has blessed us with just what we needed at that point to get us to this day. In our world, 35 years of marriage may be odd, but we have made it and I look forward to many more years of marriage with you. I love you so much today as we celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Thank you for taking a chance on me. I know there have been times when I disappointed you, but I hope that the good times have overshadowed the not so good days.
Happy 35th Anniversary
Love,
Rick
P.S. Let’s do dinner out. I’ll have my people call your people.