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Note from Bunny..........We have a very special story today......shared by a good friend of mine, and also a good friend of Words. 
It is very beautiful, and touching! 
I hope you take time to read and understand the love, commitment, courage, and true meaning of this relationship, and Memorial Day. 
I also ask you to say a prayer for this couple as the Holy Spirit leads you.
Thank you Sheila & John, with all my heart!......

May God Bless you both!.......Bunny

Now this from Sheila.........

Hi Bunny.....yes you can share with the readers. I was just laying in bed last night thinking about how my view of Memorial Day has changed since I met John, thinking about something nice I could do for him for Memorial Day and I suddenly thought of sharing his story with you and your readers because he is such an inspiration.....even tho we've never met you ARE a dear friend.........I hear John calling me I thought
he was asleep, will finish writing later.........
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Hi Bunny....I want to share this with you and your readers on this Memorial Day weekend............last year in April as I was looking for a different job in the want ads in the newspaper I came across one for a "live in caregiver." I had been a nurses aid in the past so figured I could do this too but nothing I have ever seen in the past could have prepared me for what I saw when I was interviewed for this job......when I rang the doorbell the current caregiver met and led me down the hall to the living room where there's a hospital bed. 

I can never explain the feelings I had as I approached the bed and was introduced to a very nice gentlemen by the name John. I sat in a chair by the bed as we introduced ourselves and began the interview. He asked me all about myself and then told me about him. 

He had been a frogman in the navy during the Vietnam War and as he and his buddy were planting mines under water a faulty mine blew up took half his body off and killed his buddy. He was flown back to the states and stayed in a hospital for 3 years and in and out of them ever since. 

He is paralyzed from the chest down and has no legs and no hips and has had 34 surgeries to try to reconstruct a behind for him. The explosion left him severely deformed from the waist down. He has a colostomy and a catheter in his lower abdomen. He has a huge pressure sore (that I clean and bandage daily and is healing nicely) that has kept him in bed 6 years because can't put pressure on it by sitting in a wheelchair.

The current caregiver pulled the sheet back to show me his body and began telling me how to take care of him but I could not hear her. I was staring at John's body and concentrating on not crying. A huge very painful lump grew hard in my throat where I was trying to hold back the tears. I was so overwhelmed by what I saw that finally the pain in my throat was so bad I had to let go and cry. I went back over to the chair in front of him and cried uncontrollably. I was embarrassed and apologized. As I pulled myself together he told me more about his life.

After his 3 year stay at the hospital he met a nurse on one of his many other hospital visits. They fell in love and got married in the hospital chapel and had many wonderful years together. 

He could do anything and go anywhere a walking man could as long as there was a wheelchair ramp, but their life together came to an end when she died of breast cancer in 1987 and he has been alone ever since except for the
caregivers he hired.........well, he hired me and I moved in on April 13 last year and we became so very close, so compatible and grew to care so deeply for each other that we got married. 

So I am John's caregiver and also his wife and we have a wonderful life together. He now gets up occasionally on an electric gurney (its kinda like a wheelchair with the back laid down flat). He pulls himself out of bed over on it on his
belly and I cover him with a sheet and attach straps around him and he goes anywhere he wants like that in his van which has a wheelchair lift.
He still can't sit in a wheelchair until the pressure sore completely heals and its healing very well but very slow. I take him shopping, he loves to go to Wal-Mart and Home Depot. I was worried at first how people would react to him cause I didn't want anyone to hurt his feelings but everyone has been very nice to him...... 

I just felt the need to share all this with you as this Memorial Day approaches. I'm sorry to say in the past, Memorial Day for me meant I got a day off work with pay and a day for a picnic and bar-b-q with the kids and grandchildren. Even tho I knew of our veterans I never really thought about them cause I never knew any personally. My brother was in the navy but thank God he came home in one piece. 

Being with John has made me realize what this holiday is really about and I thank him and all our other veterans from the deepest part of my heart and soul for the sacrifices they have made so my family and I can live in freedom. 
John is a wonderful person and has adjusted well to his condition and has a good attitude. 

He was very young when he got hurt but yet has led a good life. He is very good to me and I take special care of him because he deserves it. 
I firmly believe God sent me to care for John because he needed me and I needed him.......Thank You God.

Written by Sheila
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                            OMG Bunny....this is BEAUTIFUL......THANK YOU

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Web Page by Bunny 5-27-02

    Update: February 10th, 2003

Note from Sheila........
John died Sunday morning, 
February 9th, 2003 at 2:18 AM 
at the VA hospital in Tampa........he was
doing real good and then got real sick again. 
I am so sad but I know that it was God's will. 
I just pray that he accepted God before he died.......

May God have mercy on his soul........Bunny

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