This is what I wrote a month ago about my love and I thought it was fitting since today was our 11 month anniversary…. Kelly Ridder was and always will be the love of my life, my sunshine, my peace, my heart, my mind, and my body. She was God’s perfect creation and next to the holy mother, Mary, embodied so many “Christlike qualities.”The first time we met, it was fate.With as much as I have been in the hospital over my lifetime and her background on taking care of patients, with the best bedside manner in the business, we were a perfect “match.” Since that first time we laid eyes on one another, it was love at first sight……..Little did I know she was partially blind love you kelly ??Shoot in the first week, we talked about marriage, a little due to Kaitlin Jaqua and Ben Jaqua’s wedding shortly after my hospital stay, so thank you both :), but we always knew we would be together.Even with all the pain I was in at the time, her smile always made my pain go away.I just couldn’t take my eyes off the radiance that not only was her smile as bright as the sun, but also her endless and positive energy, charisma, and love for others.They say some people have a touch, a way, a style, she had it all and then some.Anyone can tell you that she could have done anything with her life; a career as an actress, sales woman, senator, teacher, doctor, and much much more.Kelly, much like in the bible where they talk about heaven or the “promised land,” the words in our language on earth were not relevant, fulfilling, or good to enough to describe this place, as no one could vividly paint the picture well enough and that was her, indescribable. She just had it.She was too good for me to describe her “touch”, with the exception of her “humility” she had for anyone, anywhere, anytime. This humility included her love for the patients at the VA.I talked to her patients and they praised and couldn’t stop raving about her heart and patience. This heart included being open to everyone’s decisions, choices, and lives. She was the most accepting and understanding person you would ever meet. She liked 99.9% of everyone and would never, ever judge you, in fact she would make you feel better than ever.She always found the good in people, the real human in people that may have done bad things, but she saw the good, and found their motivation to inspire them further to do great things.She never let people bother her and could always not only light up a room, but also turn a negative into a positive.For example, I was having a not so good day recently, and while I have millions of joke books and dumb, corny jokes that I would tell her, she never joked, she just made you feel better.This time though she not only made me feel better, but made fun of one of my favorite golfers, Tiger Woods.Q: Would a lion cheat on his wife? A: No, but Tiger wood.Just like that, the little joke made my day 110% better.As some of you that she was close to know quite well, she had the best way with words on paper and verbally. I think it was due to the fact that she read books 24/7 and could read an Encyclopedia for fun and tell you all about it. She may have been a world record holder speed reader for all I know.On top of her grueling, sometimes unbearable medical schedule, she always made time to dive into a new book, whether that was Neurology 10,000 or Game of Thrones, and oh on top of that she would write these notes that were so genuine, so perfect that made you want to go end world hunger, cancer, and more.I could go on and on, but she was the total package, I couldn’t have dreamed up a better friend, wife, mother, doctor and so much more…..And over the past 10+ months we were together, both of us couldn’t go without saying “I love you,” every two seconds it was like a poor man’s version of the notebook with the best actress in the world, Kelly.She would always arrive fashionably late and make a grand entrance. No you wouldn’t get pissed at her, you would be in awe, she was an Oscar-winning actress that captured everyo