Some of My Story

"Me Selfum Soflig Reckin" (Old English) Which means " I am going to tell the story of myself"....

Once Upon a Time...

I grew up with a mom with Crohn's Disease and a father with Bipolar Disorder, and I learned that I had a learning disability. This did not make life easy but I KNEW that we loved each other.

At the time, the psychologists thought my mom was nuts and probably me. They didn't believe that this highly intelligent man, that could work for a major electronic company could be different in two places. One was at work, where he was head of a department, and another at home where he hid in his electronics.

My father also had a wonderful bass-baritone voice that I'll remember singing to me since I was a baby. Mom couldn't carry a tune. But for whatever reason I could sing.

One day, when I was a youngling, I challenged my father to sing in the Kiwanis Festival. I placed third in my category and my father placed first... both with a score of 75%. Problem was, I had more people in my category, he only had two. Dad still thought that he was better than me. But this is not all of the problem....

Mom, bless her soul, underwent many a surgery for her guts. She had actually lost about 3 feet of her intestine because of the Crohn's and her uterus because of ....I have no idea....I just remember her being unable to make the bed because of blood loss when I was about 14. But anyway, we survived these things and then dad decided he'd not listen to the doctor.

One day I talked to mom around father's day., and she tells me that dad had to go to hospital because he had a heart attack and needed quintuple bypass surgery. I chose not to go because I have a superstition that if I visit anyone in hospital they would die. I did talk to dad while he was there after his surgery  but I was afraid so never visited. At this time my grandmother was also ill in hospital with colon cancer. No need for me to freak out.

Everything worked out OK and no one dies (this time)

Not much later my father meets the hubby but he doesn't know it yet.

One thing you have to know about the hubby is that he has Spina Bifida and could walk at the time.

Dad had joined a community theatre and the hubby was a member.

Hubby and I met in an amature production of The Sound of Music. Dad played a nazi colonel (ugg) . I was a nun. The hubby played Max Detweiler. What had happened was that dad thought that the hubby would fit into my grandfather's tux as a costume. It didn't happen at the time but the hubby noticed ME. Grandpa's tux didn't fit.

Ever since, we've been together. There's more to this story, but I'll tell it next time.