August 29 Our Wedding Anniversary
Today is our 21 st Wedding Anniversary. I still receive email reminders that Kathie set up to be sent to our/her home email account. Recently, I had a discussion with a doctor that was part of a team that evaluated Kathie. His task was to estimate how long she would live, this took place 7 year ago and two different teams made their estimates. At the time it was very shocking to hear people talking about calculations and Kathie like a statistic. As we approach the 8 th anniversary of our accident on September 5, the time since the evaluations seems like ancient history. The stark answers given were 1-2 years and 3-4 years, numbers that didn’t hold up. One of the three surgeons that operated on Kathie said, “She could have died on the (surgical) table of any one of her multiple injuries, I personally believed that Kathie would pass away within 5 years of our accident but I have treated the year as day-by-day events. Today Kathie is in good health and she has recovered fr...