Thank you for posting this story.
Posted on 11/29/2019 9:17:09 AM PST by steveben
After finding out she has stage 2 breast cancer, Jillian Hanson thought it would only be fair for both her and her then-boyfriend of three years, Max Allegretti, if she’d give him the heads up that times will get really hard and if he’s not ready for it, it would be okay to leave then. “Jillian told me that it was going to be hard and that she did not know what to expect with everything and if I couldn’t handle it, she wanted to know now,” he said. But Max didn’t actually see that as an option and stuck by her through two years of treatment
I am very happy about them
Great pics of the couple at various times at the article, including their weddnig. Kudos to them both for coming through a very tough passage successfully. May they enjoy a long and happy life together.
Oops. s/weddnig/wedding/. File under “stuned beeber”.
That’s a good man.
LOL. All good.
Cancer is no longer a quickly fatal disease. With chemo therapy and immuno-therapy and precise radiation treatment, cancer is now more of a chronic disease similar to Parkinsons or diabetes.
She’s very pretty
What a hard thing for her. Chemo is a monster
Many men and women woulda bolted
Great story- A few years back there was some scumbag bragging about leaving his dying wife for another woman- This fella here i n the article is a true gentleman- May God bless him and her tremendously
headline from that same site:
“Why Does Canada Feel more Developed Than The USA”
Bahahahahaha- Yeah, ok-
John Edwards? The "Silky Pony," Kerry's Vice-Presidential running mate?
Challenge accepted!!!!
We agreed to meet, but just before we did, she sent me an email telling me that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer four months earlier, that she was bald because of undergoing chemo, and that she had a double mastectomy.
She wrote that she would understand if I didn't want to meet her, and I admit that I was initially shocked and briefly conflicted about whether or not I wanted to meet.
But we had hit it off so well, that I told her I still wanted to meet. We did meet shortly thereafter, and I was hopelessly in love with her within a month of our first meeting. I would go with her to her doctor's appointments and also accompanied her to her chemo treatments.
We had a wonderful relationship for a year and a half, during which she was in "remission." But then she started to deteriorate, and shortly after learned that the cancer had spread to her brain. At one point, she fell off her couch in her apartment and couldn't get up. She called me and I drove over to manhandle her to my car, brought her to my place, and manhandled her up the stairs to my apartment.
I became her primary caretaker for six months until Christmas time in 2012 when I took her to the hospital. Two weeks thereafter, her doctor gave her a bleak prognosis ("short and less short") at which point she went into hospice.
The hospice staff was kind enough to let me have the other bed in her room, where I stayed every night with her for the next six weeks, during which time her lucidity deteriorated to the point where she didn't know my name or her own.
One night, after reading about the death process, I held her hand (she was unconscious most of the time), and spoke to her at length before going to bed myself.
When I woke up the next morning, she was gone. I was the last one to see her alive.
I still cherish the memories of our whole time together -- the good, the bad, and the horrific. But as the Garth Brooks song goes: "I could have missed the pain, but I'd a had to miss the dance."
Sorry for going on about this, but the posted article brought back all those memories. In fact, I'm tearing up right now.
Below is a link to the Wikipedia article about her.
no it was someone in a forum- gaming forum- he was a real scumbag- the wife had brain cancer- according to him- who knows if he was even telling the truth- but if not it was just a disgusting thing to lie about-
All I can say is,you are the person that many of us aspire to become.
Thank you for posting this story.
A wonderful story!
PING!
Beautiful. Thank you.
You did well, thanks for sharing that.
Thank you for your kind words, Farmer Dean.
Oh, I’m sure there were others, such as the jerk you named.
But VP candidate John Edwards, who ran with Kerry in 2004 also fit the bill. His wife had Stage 4 breast cancer, and he had an affair with a campaign staffer (or was it a photographer), lied about it for a while, and eventually admitted it after the election. He was a famous dirtbag. As I said, nicknamed the “Silky Pony” for his longish, carefully coiffed hair.
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