CAAAAAAAAAAAACKLE!!!

Yeah!! It's true..that Jonathan Swift...is my patron saint!!!

It's also true that as my gentle reader can plainly see,..to the dismay of a few,.I did survive the heart cath and angioplasty.

It is also true that my "prep" nurse recognized me while I was in an awkward position. She thought that it was funnier than I did at the time. Eeeeeergh! To put it bluntly,...I was in no postion to laugh!!

It's also true that I have Shakespeare's books in Borders. And they are actually being sold there and yeah,..if I have to..I'll take a picture of them on the shelves there....and send her the pictures!!

For a few delicate souls,..out there,..I am NOT the same person that I was twenty years ago and school girl cliques,..while they can upset me,..are not the "be all and stay all of life."
Seeing a young deaf man,..who was once a prisoner of a state mental institution because he was branded at the age of two as "mentally retarded"...he "didn't respond to audible stmuli"...for the psychologists so he must be retarded was the clinical way of thinking that put an intelligent little boy in such a terrible position in the first place,..seeing that boy graduate from high school after getting no formal "grade school education"..and knowing that I was the person,...who taught him to read...after a friend of mine and I got him out of the institution for the retarded and into a group home,..that my friend and I started,..along with a group of deaf...NOT hearing folks....(pants for breath.....yes,..Rosezelle,..I know I'm supose to save this for a PAYING audience.....)

(Geee!! I thnk I'm just a "rantin" away here!!)"

Watching that boy graduate fron high school and seeing him hold down a job and become a tax paying citizen, living independently...is a high for me.

Getting up in front of a group of deaf folks and telling them in their own language..about an elderly deaf-blind lady,..who withstood more abuse in her one life time than most folks see in several generations..let alone in one lifetime is the "stay all and be all" ultimate experience for me.

Talking to a group of school kids or college students about deafness and teaching them the manual alphabet,..and telling them that..."life is more than what they see"...is a high that no drug or drink can give.

Talking to a deaf-blind lady at Columbus Colony for the Deaf,..which is SUPPORTED AND RUN BY THE DEAF IN THE STATE OF OHIO,...and having her understand me is another "ultimate" experience. One of you has seen me do that.

And yeah,..it's true that the last time I talked to said lady..that I got another interpreter to talk to the lady. That was for the benefit of the person,..who was with me. I lack the skills in English to properly interpret for the English speaking person,..who was with me at the time,.. all of the things that the deaf-blind lady was saying to us. That did not mean that I did not understand the deaf-blind lady..myself.

Wooot! Will say more later!