This is a quick little btb story with only a little actual sex in it. All participants in sex, real or imagined, are over 18 years old. I hope you enjoy it!!
My wife and I had been married for 22 years when this story takes place. Our two children David 25 and Jane 23 are off on their own and David is engaged. My name is Bob Lemon. My wife, Rose, had a dizzy spell one day and fainted the next. We had no idea why so she went to our PCP to get a quick checkup. Our doctor said there are many ressons she could have this issue that are very innocuous but that a blood screening was in order due to Rose being 45 years old.
Rose has led a very healthy life so far without any issues and only sees the doctor for regular checkups. We were told the blood test was merely being overly cautious. Fortunately it was well timed and ended up being extremely important.
The doctor asked us to both come to his office to go over his findings. This set off alarms in my head but Rose seemed to not be concerned so I stayed calm so as not to stress her. He had ordered a series of X rays to happen immediately on our arrival. Now I was really concerned and Rose looked worried as well.
"What's going on John?" I asked once Rose left the room.
"There are some anomalies with the blood work," he answered. "We'll get to the bottom of it."
When Rose returned she seemed quiet and reserved. We didn't talk much. She did say she was nervous as was I. After a good long wait John came back and sat down.
"Rose, there's no easy way to break this to you so I'll just say it. You have cancer." We both gasped in shock. "Now don't get too excited about it. This cancer is quite treatable. You have a very small growth on your uterus. We caught it very early so the prognosis is very good." He sighed. "Now you can choose two possible treatments. First is chemo and radiation therapy which would most likely take care of it but is also hard on you and takes time. It's not a hundred percent effective either. Second is what I recommend. You're 45 years old so I doubt you have any use for your uterus. A hysterectomy would be 100 percent effective assuming there's no other growths elsewhere. I assume you'll want to talk it over first but the sooner we can get things scheduled the better."
I was coming out of my initial shock after hearing the encouraging part of it.
"Thanks John, it sounds better than I had hoped for. Right honey?" Rose was pale and shaking so I hugged her. "Everything is going to be fine honey."
The operation went perfectly and no other growths were encountered. I took a two week vacation so I could take care of Rose. I treated Rose like a queen during her recovery. I cooked, I cleaned, I brought flowers home, and we talked for hours. It turned out that Rose had an epiphany due to her "brush with death."
"Honey, we have been working our lives away just so we can die with nice stuff. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I think we need to start living our lives. We should be going on trips or doing things we've always wanted to do."
I thought to myself she was right, but did she think she almost died. I've been hearing her talking to her family on the phone in over dramatic ways. She had made it sound like she was on the brink of death. That's pretty much her whole family though, over dramatic. I still couldn't argue with her logic.
"You're right honey, carpe diem, let's do it. We should make a bucket list while you're laid up. Things we want to do individually and together! I already know the first one. The trip to Europe we have talked about for years, let's do it!!"
We spent my vacation and her recovery discussing everything to do with our dreams. The financial situation for us was quite good. Most of our dreams could come true without hurting our wallet much. We agreed that our top priority was travel. We both had places we wanted to visit. During my vacation we booked our trip to Europe. We put it together quickly so we could go for my next vacation in three months.
We also made up a bucket list of experiences we wished to tackle, everything from dancing lessons to trying new foods. We made an exhaustive list since we agreed that some things could be accomplished on an evening after work or a day off.
I even included some of my sexual wish list since we haven't been that adventurous so far. I wasn't sure Rose would be into experimenting but I thought it was worth a try. We were very limited in how often we had oral sex, in fact I've had exactly two blow jobs early on in the marriage thus far. I loved the few times I gave Rose a tongue lashing but I think she didn't like the expectation of reciprocity so she stopped letting me do it. Anal had never happened although the one time I sunk my thumb in her ass while fucking gave her a huge orgasm. Anyway it's on my list.
Rose needed six weeks to fully recover. We weren't allowed to have sex before then so I took her to dinner at a restaurant that had crawdads on the menu so we could both take it off our list. It was great. The manager said, "Suck the head and pinch the tail!"
I said, "Oh that's not until later, haha." Rose laughed but not as hard as I hoped.
We got home and had more wine in anticipation of our first lovemaking in six weeks. It was a little awkward. We usually let nature take its course but after six weeks we were both chomping at the bit. It was assumed that sex was happening. It was also the first sex since her reproductive system had been altered. That was a little unspoken situation that altered our intimate psyche.
We did have sex, vanilla and somewhat less than thrilling but the seal was broken. Now life could get back to normal.
"Do you really want to do all those sexual things on your bucket list? I'm not sure if I'm comfortable doing those things," she said. It struck me as selfish at first. We've been married a long time and our sex has never changed. I thought she would be excited to try new things but apparently not.
"No, I guess not. I don't want you to feel pressured into anything you don't want to do. For me." I guess I worded it so she knew I was disappointed on purpose but it didn't work. She just moved on to other topics.
The whole bucket list thing started to seem lopsided to me. We kept fulfilling things from her list and nothing from mine. Maybe I'm just selfish.
Finally the time came for our trip to Europe. It was everything we had dreamed. The romance was back in our marriage for at least those two weeks. We started in Amsterdam, toured Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France and ended the trip in London. We flew back from Heathrow and got home completely exhausted after our huge adventure. We even tackled other bucket list items while traveling, like going to a nude beach.
During our trip and for several weeks afterwards we discussed where we wanted to go next. We wouldn't be able to take two weeks at a time very often so the next two trips would be one week. We could take one more this year and then start next year's.
We came to an agreement to go to Hawaii this year. We would wait for another two week vacation to go to Australia since we both want to go there. We figured next winter which will be summer there. That left one week still undecided so far. It was exciting for us having these trips to plan for and look forward to.
Meanwhile we were going back to items on our list we could do locally. We went skydiving one weekend. I can definitely say never again, but we did it.
