Laurin had lost both of her parent to stage 4 cancer and knew all too well what this meant. She looked at me in tears.
‘Are we still going to get married?,’ she asked.
She was not asking me this thinking I was going to change my mind, but was wanting to protect me from the possible extreme costs of treatment.
‘Of course we are,’ I told her. ‘It just means we have more to figure out.’
By this time we had already chosen our wedding date which was the 3 year anniversary from the day we met. We had booked our venue, sent out save the dates and were well into the planning process. The doctors encouraged us to move up the date, fearing the worst. But we decided after much discussion that no matter what, that would be our wedding date.
In between treatments we continued to travel as much as possible. We spent thanksgiving in Arizona and saw the Grand Canyon, the slat canyons in Paige, and spent a few days in Sedona. In December Laurin required a surgery because of fluid buildup on her lungs that put her in the hospital for a week. During that week, Laurin asked me jokingly when she was going to get her ‘fun car.’ By the end of the day I found her dream car, and 2 days later went and bought her an Infiniti convertible. At this point she had not driven in months, but as soon as we got this car she got so excited she started driving every day again. A few weeks later we were accepted onto a clinical trial which would start about 6 weeks before our wedding date. So we decided to go on a pre-honeymoon not knowing what the next few months would look like. We took the convertible and spent an amazing week in Key West!
