Andy met Denise, who is a trauma nurse from Florida, almost four years ago while she was on a canoe trip with a Boy Scouts troop. Denise also made it very clear that she can hang with Andy in the Alaskan wilderness. "I was born in Canada, grew up knowing what hard work was about," Denise said. "My family homesteaded up in northern Saskatchewan, a farm, which is still an active, hardworking farm. Calico Bluff is full of work, full of great work. Real work that counts at the end of the day.
And Andy definitely knows he would not be able to survive in Alaska without the help of his tough girlfriend. "If I didn't have a partner to help me, there's no way I could've come back here and accomplished what I need to do," he gushed back then.
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Now, it's all just about taking things one day at a time for Andy and Denise. "The big thing I've got to keep in mind is that I always try to do too much," Andy said. "I've got to make sure I don't do something to hurt myself worse... Right now I just have to downsize my expectations a little bit."
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