I really agree with most everything everyone has said. I am getting married on the 20th of this month to an amazing gal who I have no question loves me for me. I was honest about CF from the beginning with her and she knows as well as I do, that none of us has any guarantees about how long we will be here. We are all vapors my friend, just as many have said here.
I have been pretty healthy most of my life, (I am 40 now)with most all of my issues with CF coming in the last maybe 10 years. In February, I ended up in the hospital on a vent with my doctors telling her, (Heidi) that I wasn't leaving the hospital at all without a transplant etc. My PH and C02 levels were way off and after a couple weeks of IV's and treatments, my Fev1 was only at 18% or .81 Lt. Heidi stayed with me in that hospital every second, when I woke up after being on the vent for 3 days she said she wanted me to know that she would be there and love me for any time we had together, that it was all a gift. Well, a month and 4 days later, we got out of the hospital and I have been getting myself back in shape. God has blessed me in so many ways all my life and now it just gets better every day. She said yes to marrying me after going through all that.
If your not happy with yourself, how can you ever ask anyone else to be? Get yourself to a point where you know who you are and that you are worth loving, then go out and find someone worth that honor. There are plenty of amazing women out there who will make you feel like the only man on earth. Give them something to love, a strong secure man who makes the best of a tough situation and in return, make sure to put them first in everything because that is how love succeeds <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
-Mike (occasionally referred to as Greeting Card Boy)