Teamwork

This year has started off to a great start! On January 5th, I got engaged to Rawley Filbin over dinner at our very first date choice the BriMarie Inn in Sayre, PA. While this engagement has moved rather fast, I can not help but find myself more and more overjoyed every day when I think of spending the rest of my life with such an amazing, honest, good-natured man.

Ever since I was a little girl, I never thought that I would find anyone who would want to get to know me, let alone ask me to marry them. Fighting a chronic illness can be a rather daunting task, and there are times when you feel as though you are fighting on your own. I've learned as I've grown that is is definitely not the case. When you find a person who truly cares about you, they are willing to stick by your side through sickness and in health, and I can 100% confidently say that I have that.

Since I've been with Rawley, I have not once felt alone. He is there at every doctor appointment taking notes and thinking of ways to improve both of our lives. He's not one to ask me to do something that he would not want to do. He does not sit there and tell me to do my breathing treatments, drink water and exercise. He is right there by my side playing a card game with me while I do them, offering to drink water with me, and planning ways that we can both exercise to benefit us as a team. As strange as it seems, I have never once thought of approaching my health as a joint effort. I always felt like it was my job and and my burden to bear on my own. While I know deep down that this is not true, it's easier to see that it now is not all on my shoulders.

I'm ready to see how much my life changes once I am no longer Miss Bolster, but rather Mrs. Filbin. Bring it on!