[fireant911]

In my almost 12 years of marriage, my wedding band has been off twice - once for gall bladder surgery and the other for a colonoscopy. I remember how odd it felt when the ring was first placed on my hand but, now, it has become part of me. My wife was a bit different... she stopped wearing her engagement ring when she was in medical school because of the frequent scrubbing up she had to do during her clinical rotations (... well, that is the story she told me!). She lost her wedding band last Thanksgiving at the hospital. She, too, felt almost naked without that so we obtained an almost identical replacement.