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Neuropathy | Last Active: Oct 28, 2021 | Replies (74)

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@darlingtondoll

So many people have asked me to write a book about my life, but I tell them that it would have to be anonymous because I don’t want my kids to know all about me.😁 I feel as though I have lived many lives. My father and I used to entertain the troops during WW II. I started to sing in four languages when I was 18 months old. You can teach a kid anything. I was the opening act and sang the Star Spangled Banner when some of the big bands came to town during WW II. Later in life, I sang professionally in California. But that is a tiny part of who I am. I had so many careers in my life. I was a nurse for a short time and then I went back to school and got a master’s degree in geophysics and worked for the government on top secret projects, I also designed and built custom furniture, had a business in art conservation and worked on Picasso’s drawings, sculptures from the Palace at Versailles, as well as many other painters, designed and made gowns and suits and my husband and I built a four story passive solar hillside house near the ocean in Monterey County, California. We did this on weekends for five years while we worked for the government on weekdays. Busy, busy life. I met a lot of interesting people along the way, particularly in the arts. I learned to play golf with a pro at Pebble Beach and that is where I played my very first game of golf. I played on those courses for 10 years until we moved to Palm Springs. I changed my life around and worked in a special floor at Desert Hospital for patients with AIDS. Those were the days when they all died. I had a lot of friends with AIDS and I lost over 50 of them. I cried a lot and became numb to life around me. It was a sad time. So you can see how my life changed over and over. Now I am stuck in my wheelchair, but I feel that I have experienced a lot of life and I have so many memories to look back upon.

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You my dear, are a novel! ☺

@darlingtondoll, my, but you have had a fascinating life! Thank you for sharing!

My husband started the very first Aids Support Group here in our little city. This was back when the majoriry of the country thought that you could get Aids by eating or drinking after an infected person.

He would give educational.presentations all over North Alabama as part of his job in Communicable Diseases. He would have a coffee mug with him onstage, and very casually mention that the cup had previously been used by an Aids patient. While that thought was sinking in, he would slowly take a sip of hot coffee.

You can imagine how well that went over. Faces aghast. I was, and am so very proud of him for the work that he did. He was the voice of calmness in the middle of a hurricane. He was compassion where there was hatred. We lost a lot of people back then. One patient became our very dear friend. We had him in our home frequently. When he died we were heartbroken.

Bless you for all you have done for others. Enjoy your rest. And all your wonderful memories. Glad you are here with us.
Love and light,
Mamacita Jane