Rebecca Scherr:  

Life I never thought that I would leave my beloved Oklahoma, but here I am in the SE US wondering if you all are still there. My late-husband and I moved to Cordell, OK in 1999 after I graduated from veterinary school at Texas A&M, but we didn't live there long. I left Oklahoma in 2005 after our home in Cordell was destroyed by a tornado in 2001 then in the following year my husband passed away after a blood clot broke loose following his surgery. There were just too many negative memories in Oklahoma. In 2005 I met my current husband, Larry, on the internet and moved east to be with him. Anyway, besides my story of how I left Oklahoma...I am a veterinarian. I graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma and then attended veterinary college in Texas. I love dogs. We have a Pomeranian and a blind Pekingese that we adopted from the shelter. I love country and western music, especially Waylon Jennings...I just can't believe that he has left us...as well as Hank Williams, Jr. and David Allan Coe So much has changed in these twenty-six years. I drive a Ford F-150 Lariat. I love surfing the internet...so much to learn!!! Like anything else, there is A LOT of garbage, but it has also expanded our ability to study so much that it is unreal. I am always the perpetual student -- learning is what makes life worth living! I play the flute and the piano and soon am thinking of learning to playthe guitar as well. I am also getting back to my Jewish heritage, studying Hebrew and the history of the people and the Jewish faith. I also found out that I have an anxiety disorder and a very mild form of epilepsy in which I do not have full-blown seizures, but I sometimes perceive things rather in a different manner from everyone else for just a minute or so. It is difficult to describe. I would never have found out had it ot been for the tornado. I started suffering from panic attacks after it, so I finally was able to receive the treatment I needed and during that ti...Expand for more