Annette Sherman:  

HI EVERYONE, WELL.............THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU (EXCEPT FOR KAREN KUBIK - WE'VE KEPT IN TOUCH LO, THESE 50 YEARS!!!) WAS IN 1996, AT OUR 30TH REUNION. BOY, DOES THAT SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME AGO. WHO KNEW WE''D BE THIS OLD, BE PARENTS, BE GRANDPARENTS, BE WIDOWED, BE GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, BE RETIRED, AND SOUND - A LOT OF THE TIME - LIKE OUR PARENTS DID DECADES AGO (USUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY OUR SCATHING COMMENTS OF DISBELIEF OF THEIR IGNORANCE!!). MY LATE HUSBAND AND SOULMATE, GENE, PASSED AWAY IN NOVEMBER OF 2007, OF A SUDDEN HEART ATTACK. HE WAS A PHENOMENAL AUTOMOTIVE SCULPTOR. WE HAD A VERY BLESSED AND WONDERFUL 20 YEARS TOGETHER. I HAVE TWO SPECTACULAR STEP-DAUGHTERS WITH ACCOMPANYING SONS-IN-LAW, 2 BEAUTIFUL GRANDDAUGHTERS (26 AND 12 YEARS OLD), AND NOW A ONE YEAR OLD GREAT-GRANDSON, AND IN MID-MARCH, A GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER. ALL THE "KIDS" LIVE IN THE HOUSTON AREA. IN 2006, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE. IT'S HAD A SLOW ONSET, THANK GOD. I STILL LIVE IN OUR HOME AND DRIVE. I RETIRED IN 2011 FROM 41 YEARS OF NURSING (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF NURSING CLASS OF 1970), 40 OF WHICH WAS IN THE OPERATING ROOM. (FROM 1974 IN CALIFORNIA). I SPECIALIZED IN ADULT AND PEDIATRIC HEART SURGERY, VASCULAR SURGERY, AND NEUROSURGERY. I WAS BLESSED HERE IN CALIFORNIA TO WORK WITH A NUMBER OF DOCTORS FROM UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, E...Expand for more