Im currently a student just doing AFF now, I have a wife two kids and have just turned 40 so a late bloomer.
In 2010 I spent 3 months in ICU, with multiple organ failure caused by acute Pancreatitis, I was put into induced coma for 3weeks, and the doctors told my family I would likely not make it.
Well I did make it and in 2012 for my 40th my wife brought me a voucher for my AFF as she new I had wanted to do this for a long time. She is surprisingly supportive (more than I would ever thought) even when I was supposed to turn right yesterday and go to work and I turned left and headed to the DZ.
Shit can happen in all aspects of life but life is for the living.
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