Positivity: E-pal saved her life, became her hubby

From Washington State, and Massachusetts, via Dear Abby:

Dear Abby:

I started reading your column when I was 8. (I am now 38.) From time to time you print stories about how couples met, and I would like to share mine.

I have severe asthma, and in January 2001 I was out sick from work for three days. While I was home, I started talking to John over the Internet. At the time, he lived in Massachusetts, and I lived in Washington state.

After an hour or so, he convinced me to seek medical help. I was taken to the hospital and don’t remember much after I got there. Three days later, I woke up with a tube down my throat. My doctor told me if I hadn’t come in when I did, I would have died, and my children would have been left motherless!

I was released a few days later, and when I returned home, I found e-mails from John leaving me his work number, home number and pager number. I called him and told him he had saved my life from 3,000 miles away.

In June 2001, I flew back East and we drove back to Washington together. We were married in July 2002 and renewed our wedding vows last Valentine’s Day. We have a 3-year-old son, and not a day goes by that I am not thankful for my husband, who was an emergency medical technician. He says he was “just doing his job.” He is now an EMT-intermediate, and I am taking an EMT class myself.

I tell John every day that I fall more and more in love with him. We always talk over our disagreements and never go to bed angry at each other.

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