“John Was My PATIENT and I Was Married. I Made an Online Dating Profile When Suddenly a New Profile Popped Up on My Screen”: Nurse Marries Cancer Fighter Patient

And there was that earth-shattering grin staring right at me from the screen of my phone. I swiped right, he did too, and the rest was history.

John and I went on our first date. And our second. And our third; all within the same week. We quickly became inseparable. If we couldn’t be together, we were texting, talking on the phone, dropping off lunches to each other. Anything we could do to be ‘together.’

Remember that love at first sight thing? This was it. The real deal.

You must be thinking, ‘John is free of cancer and found the love of his life! How sweet!’ Only part of that is true. You see, when John and I first started dating he was deemed ‘No Evidence of Disease’ (NED) term that many cancer patients dream about. The thing is, when you have been diagnosed with stage IV cancer as John had been, even though there is no visual ‘evidence’ of cancer on his CT scans, it’s still there. Microscopic little cancer cells just floating around waiting to settle down and start making tumors. As John not so lightly put it, it’s essentially like having a guillotine hanging over your head.