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BY KIMBERLY DAVIS TIMES LEADER CORRESPONDENT
Tuesday, February 08, 2000 Page: 6
At the pharmacy window, they found the perfect prescription
It was an office romance, in a manner of speaking, but it began in a hospital.
Michael Savner, originally from Wilkes-Barre Township, was the pharmacy
supervisor at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and Kim Gawet, originally of
Nanticoke, was working at the hospital as a nursing assistant. The two met for
the first time in 1991 at the pharmacy window. Something clicked, a
partnership flourished, and they have been happily married for five years.
Times have changed a bit since that first meeting. When Kim changed jobs, for
example, Michael became her supervisor. “I was her boss until we got
married,” he jokes. While they were dating, Kim remembers, there came a time
when they saw a falling star. She told Michael that if you make a wish on a
falling star, the third time you see one the wish will come true. She wasn’t
even sure Michael was listening, but he was. He bought an engagement ring and
waited out two more falling stars before asking Kim to marry him. “I would
have had to come up with a plan B if we hadn’t seen that third falling star,”
Michael says. In 1995, Kim became Mrs. Michael Savner. They took a honeymoon
cruise to the South Caribbean in the wake of hurricane and were disappointed
that some of the islands they were scheduled to visit, including St. Thomas
and St. Martin, were closed to tourists. The following year, for their first
anniversary, the Savners took the same cruise again with the original
itinerary and had their dream honeymoon. It was just a day before their first
anniversary that Kim found out that their first child was on the way. She and
Michael had decided not to exchange anniversary gifts because of their
upcoming trip, so Kim kept the news to herself for a day and decided to tell
him on their anniversary. Bright and early the next morning, Kim told Michael
she had a little gift for him. Then she delivered the news. “I couldn’t wait
any longer,” she says. Michael and Kim have two daughters: Madyson, 2, and
Makenzie, three months. They juggle their busy working schedules and children
with the help of grandmothers, Theresa Gawet of Nanticoke and Eleanor Savner
of Mountaintop. Michael and Kim share a lot of interests, among them skiing,
bicycling, traveling and dining out, but they have had their share of sadness,
too. Just one month after their wedding they both lost their fathers. Michael
and Kim, however, are both thankful that their fathers were there to share the
happiest day of their lives with them.