Re: What a group!/marriage survival

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My hat is off to you! Being in business/farming takes a special bond for those

marraiages to last. I am in total agreement that if the ralationship has the

proper makeup it will last. My marriage was one that was not supposed to last

but 48 years later we are still working at it. Thirteen months after we married

we had a daughter that was not supposed to be able to go to school. She has a

college degree. I have had a 5 way bypass, a pacemaker, CML, and now type 2

diabetes. My wife has had type 2 diabetes,a quad bypass, brest cancer,

prolapsed uterus, and is suffering from many of the side effects of diabetes.

We both agreed in our vows for better or worse and we are still waiting for

worse. These little challenges just seem to make our bond that much stronger.

It is wonderful to see so many couples that married for life and not just until

things got a little tough.

H.

dx 3/03

400mg gleevec 3/03

currently at 17 months on my Gleevec vacation

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> Have to put my 2 cents worth in. I agree with Lottie. If a

> relationship has the proper makeup, it will last through anything.

> My husband has just been dx in May this year. We have been through a

> lot in the last six months, but it has brought us closer and has not

> polarized us. We are married 50 years and operated a business

> together for 33 years----and lived through that. My heart does go

> out to the young people I hear about who have this disease. It has

> been eye-opening to me to read these blogs and see so many young

> adults affected. I thought this was an old-person's disease. I can

> see it is not. Thank God there are now treatments with hope for new

> ones in the future.

> Stay strong,

> Joyce Mesnarich

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