“It couldn’t have turned out better. I’m just extremely happy....

“It couldn’t have turned out better.  I’m just extremely happy.  I worked as a nurse my whole life.  It was my job and my ministry.  I’m about to spend my 40th Christmas with the love of my life.  John’s everything I ever wanted.  We have two wonderful children, and a nine-year-old granddaughter who lives a block away, and absolutely adores her grandmother.  We’re going to make cookies later and she gets to do the icing, so the faces are going to be all cockeyed.  But I’m not going to care one bit.  Our little old dog will be sleeping by our feet in the kitchen.  His name is Pork because he looks like a sausage.  He lived in a cage for eight years before we rescued him.  He’s deformed, paralyzed, and, I hate to say this– incontinent.  He can’t hear.  He can’t see.  But Pork just keeps going.  He goes crazy whenever he smells meat.  Just loves his life.  We all learn a lot from Pork.”