Jerald (Jerry) Frates:
CLASS OF 1974
John Glenn High SchoolClass of 1974
Norwalk, CA
Sage Junior High SchoolClass of 1970
Palmdale, CA
Jerald (Jerry)'s Story
Life
You all knew me as Jerry Chavez due to the fact that my Mother made me use my Stepfather's name instead of my own birth name. Now that I've got that out of the way, I've been well blessed. Married 33 years come November 3, 2006. We have 3 boys, Jarrod (30), Joshawa (28) and Sean (27). Sean got married in April 2004 to a beautiful and intellegent woman with two daughters, (now 20 & 11). I've been working on finding friends from High School so feel very free to contact me. I fell down 14 stairs on Oct. 15, 2003, hit my head and was knocked out for about 5 minutes. I have been to hell and back the last four years. I am a little better now thanks to the people at St. Jude Pain Management Group. Through many different diciplines and strategies they have taught me how to cope with the 24/7 pain in my head and the constant high frequency noise in my head. I now have to ...Expand for more
find my memory and some thinking problems need to be addressed, so, wish me luck.
As of 08/27/2007 I am attending Coastline Community College in their Acquired Brain Injury Program. In this program, I am working on memory and cognitive deficits caused by the fall mentioned above. I have made many new friends and I am working very hard. It is hard to deal with finding out just how impaired I am from hitting my head so hard. It is clear that I will not regain everything I have lost, but at the same time I am realizing that I can and have improved some in just the first semester. I have regained my balance to where I can ride my Harley again, and do almost every day, (except when it rains), to school from Riverside to Costa Mesa and back. That is a freedom that I really missed and now have back.
Be cool and love your fellow humans and our great planet,
Jerry
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