ME

Me on January 10, 1944

Another Me on October 10, 1944
I was a fast grower and a fast learner, I am off to my new job.

I've always worked to support myself.

I moved out from my parents home sometime oh let's say around the middle to late part of sometime early in 1945 or 1946, I don't remember.

My job involved some traveling so it was a small problem keeping diapers and formula but somehow I managed.

I was a pretty good sales kid and won a trip to Disneyland. All expenses paid which was good since I don't and didn't carry a wallet and at that young age I wasn't using a purse yet.

I think you'll admit I was quite the stunning figure at that young age. What 'm trying to find out is what happened? When did all this change occur. I don't look anything like I used too??

That's It!!!

Oh By the way, Happy Halloween, Here are three of the restaurant customers after last friday's Halloween Party.

My Illness

Well, I think one of the things someone with cancer can do is to enjoy the humor of the whole situation. Although there are times when, let just say a cancer person may not be feeling as good as he or she would like, and that can be frequent, we cancer people can laugh at things related to our own particular illness.

From time to time I go to the hospital or to the doctor or even to a clinic for tests and for testing and for probing and for samples of various fluids or skin or some other body part. Fascinating as it may seem to be there is some intrusion and some aggravation associated with the visits to the Doctor.

These pictures show some of the humor (in my opinion) of one kind of testing.

I decided to have some fun.

I was going to be observed during my nights sleep and my sleeping was being monitored as I slept with the attachments of several probes and wires and whatever those things are called.

Once I got past the horrible pain and intense electrical shocks I think I actually felt pretty good. I was only kidding about the electrical shocks and also the pain. Actually the only pain would have been the removal of the tape. That part really made me cringe. There is something about removing tape the gives me the willies.

So what I did was to photograph a picture of my eyes. I cut the picture of each eye to match the rim of a pair of glasses. I attached the picture on the inside of the glasses so that it looked like my eyes were open. These glasses I wore during the night when I was supposed to be sleeping. The camera's in the room, on the ceiling, would be aimed on me during the night so that the technician could monitor what was going on with me during the night while I was suppose to be asleep.

I thought it was pretty funny! I thought it might brighten the technicians evening, after all he needs to stay awake all night watching two or three people sleep! I thought we might all get a good laugh.

Hey, They will be talking about this for some time I think!

Why do we have to take sickness so seriously. I got what I got and it isn't going to get me down.

I just need to be sure not to loose my sense of humor and you shouldn't loose yours either.

OK That's it.

Some Other Jamaica Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from our trip to Jamaica

First Stop Is to get a Bloody Mary, That's right a Bloody Mary, a girl needs to cover all the food groups every day and this a good way to start.

Now on to the view..

This is the life!

Ok.... one Bloody Mary down, What is next? Breakfast? Tan? Another Bloody Mary, I can do anything I'd like to.

It is so beautiful in Jamaica!

Friends We met in Jamaica. One couple from Argentina and the other from Peru.

We helped them as no one at the hotel spoke Spanish so Rosy became the official interrupter.

Introduce to you.......Rosy's "Booty Shaking" Dance teachers!

Rosy received some one on one instruction!

Within minutes she was on her own!

Dancing..............................................................

and more Dancing!!!!

We took a little break form the dancing to sit down on the Hobie Cat, and this is the very one from the "White/Hobie incident. (Some day I'll tell you about it!

On our way somewhere but I don't even remember this picture being taken?

I'll let you know when I find out?

This is a picture (from inside the bus) of H. Bolts Hi School. Our bus driver while taking us to the airport stopped so we could see his High School. Everyone talked about this young man, they all were proud of the Olympics success, as we are of all the contestants!

THE TRIP TO JAMAICA

Well Here we are in Sandals Grande, Ocho Rios, Jamaica "Mon".

These are some of the pictures I took early on.

It is very nice here and the people we have met

and I sure will continue to meet will be terrific.

Arrival at the Airport then loading onto the bus and on the bus for the two hour ride to the airport.

Views from the moving bus window

This was a short rest stop for the bus tour people who drank many Red Stripe Beers on the bus during the first hour of the trip to the hotel.

Arrival at the Airport then the "Greeter" although small had big impact on the group and directed us to our respective rooms with style and a very efficient manner

First Stop is the Bar.

Back of the Hotel early morning view.

Some nice people ignoring Rosy?

Another view of the "back" of the hotel.

Stairway to the restaurant with a waterfall, it was nice.

Rest after a hard day tanning in the sun.

Adios for now, more and hopefully better pictures to come later.