A Real Catch

My friend from Furman, Megan Carson, wrote a book about going on blind dates and finding "the One". I have enjoyed getting on her website (http://www.megancarson.com/) and reading her blog posts. Today I came across an article that she found in the Boston Globe, written by a breast cancer doctor.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/10/04/will_he_hold_your_purse/


If you don't want to read the whole article, the gist of it is that there is a misconception among many young singles who are looking for lifelong partners...they think they want partners to romance them with sunset walks on beaches and French food. But what the author is pointing out is that the REAL CATCH is someone who will hold his wife's purse as she gets radiation treatment for breast cancer. I inserted my parent's situation with Pulmonary Hypertension in for her references to Cancer and this is what I came up with:


WANTED: A partner for richer or poorer and for better or worse and absolutely, positively in sickness and in health. A partner for fishing and French food and beach walks and kayak trips, but also for phone calls from physicians with bad news, and who will keep his cell phone close at all times waiting for "the call". A guy who knows that while much of marriage is a 50-50 give-and-take, sometimes it’s more like 90-10, and that’s OK, even when the 90-10 phase goes on and on. A man who truly doesn’t care what somebody looks like after battling PH for 4 years, in and out of ICU, and with a permanent port sticking in her chest, or at least will never reveal that he’s given it a moment’s thought. A guy who’s got some comfort level with secretions and knows the value of a cool, damp washcloth. A partner who knows to remove the computer mouse from a woman’s hand when she types phrases like “Pulmonary Hypertension death sentence” in a Google search. And, most of all, a partner who will sit in a transplant clinic waiting room and hold hard onto the purse on his lap.

Daddy, you are a REAL CATCH, and Mom's a very blessed woman to have caught you.