Debbie is now four years after treatment, still being monitored and still with no signals of any returning issues. 
Debbie has worked as a graphic artist and in office administration, including a school secretary. She took several years off from work when we though it more important for her to be home for our two children. Our kids are now grown and are out adulting.
I was an officer in the US Coast Guard for six years before going to graduate school, where I earned a Ph.D. in Engineering. I have worked for over 25 years in the medical device industry across most aspects of developing new products.
Both boot camp and my work experience with medical procedures gave me skills that helped me support her through this experience.
I’d been working on writing novels for about two years before the cancer diagnosis put a lot of things on hold. I must say it was absolutely never my lifelong ambition to write a book about my wife having cancer.
Doing our research as we completed writing our memoir, we discovered roughly half of marriages get into serious trouble from the stresses of cancer and the treatment experience. It's hard on the patient and it's hard on the spouse who cares for the patient. Some caregivers end up getting overwhelmed. Men are more likely to bail out on a women needing care than a woman on a man. I'll admit I was stressed a lot of the time, but together we got through it.
This page has before and after pictures. The photo at the top was taken the weekend before Debbie started chemotherapy. Not wanting to deal with losing long hair, she got her hair cut in a short, but cute pixie cut. I got mine cut shorter than hers an hour later. I kept it that short for as long as Debbie was bald. The photo at the bottom was taken about three years after treatment ended.
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