Today is our three year anniversary. Unfortunately yesterday revealed itself to be a hard day for us. Shortly after waking, my FI began noticing that he didn’t have any muscle control on the left hand side of his face and it progressively got worse throughout the day. After a visit to my doctor, he was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy. We’re cautiously optimistic that this will go away sooner rather than later. To make matters worse though, my FI does not have health insurance. My FI is relatively healthy besides being overweight and his hope was that he would be okay until we got married next September. Not so much. The left side of his face is in perpetual state of droopiness and it’s causing problems with his left eye, mouth and speech.
We have made the adult decision to get our marriage license and contact our reverend and get married as soon as possible so that he can be enrolled on my insurance. This isn’t how we planned it, but it’s what we need to do. Our plan right now is to still use 9/28/13 but as our wedding vow renewal. My dress is ordered but hasn’t come in yet. Our deposits have all been made and most are non-refundable. Our “quicky” wedding will be an exchanging of vows just between the two of us.
We’re going to get through this together though. I didn’t think I could love my FI any more than I already did. But having gone through the fear of the unknown, it has only solidified further how strong our love is for one another. This isn’t exactly how we had planned to spend our three year anniversary but knowing we have each other is all we really need in this world.