Rebecca Freas-Porell:  

Life I am on facebook more than on here because it is free. I went back to Freeman after my divorce. Life is definitely different than what I planned for my future and that is for sure. After high school, I studied at West Georgia Medical Center and became a Nursing Assistant and worked at the hospital there for at least 1 year. I enjoyed helping patients there on the surgical unit. It was a great pleasure getting to know others and helping them during their recovery period. I married and started a family. We had one son but soon we divorced after 5 years. It was a good marriage and I should not have given up on it but there were reasons that it was just not meant to be. After a short period back home in Georgia, I dated a little and made a lot of mistakes in my life. Some I wish I could undo but unfortunately we can't go back. I went for a visit to Texas and never came home again to live. Long story but all my money ran out when my car got towed when I went to a Rolling Stones concert and it cost so much to get the car out of the pound that I had to get a job. Six hundred cars got towed that day. Mine just happen to be one of them. It was during that job that someone left me a huge check as a tip at the Pizza Hut I was working at with a note that God had told them I needed it to find an apartment here. Took me a while to cash that check because I couldn't believe what had happened. It was shortly after that when I found an apartment and decided I would attend college out here. I married again to my junior high sweetheart in Texas. I started college during these years and became a hit in the math department there. I worked part time there and was wife, student, mother and chief cook and bottle washer at home. I thought I could do it all. I was going nonstop at 90 miles an hour every day. We had one daughter, who went with me to college daily for the first 5 years of her life and became known as the little math departments mascot. She was drawing calculus integrals on the blackboards with the right answers at age 5. I thought she was going to be an artist when she grew up but little did I know at the time what that college experience was going to lead to for her later in her life. For a while, our life was wonderful but our differences in beliefs among other things caused some major ripples that could not be worked out. So our life together ended after another 5 years. I dated for a while and continued my education at UTA in Arlington Texas. I modeled some in Dallas to help pay bills and I started tutoring math after my first semester there. Soon afterwards I was given full control over some of the math classes there as the first undergraduate to do so. I loved my job and I worked, went to classes, tutored math for all levels up to Calculus and D.E. and was soon offered a position with LTV Missiles Aerospace and Defense in the software engineering department. I worked there for several years and continued to teach continuing education classes at UTA in the evenings and worked for the Upward Bound Project on weekends to teach high school kids math and prepare them for college. Still going 90 miles an hour and hoping to finish my degree. I had 97 college credits by this time and only a couple more semesters to go and I would have graduated with a math degree with a computer science option. I had job offers starting me out with more than I would have ever needed when I graduated but this was not meant to be. After a few years working at LTV, I became sick which ended my schooling and my new found job I loved so much. It started with a fever, rash, headaches, short term memory problems, night sweats, severe fatigue, sore throat, problems processing new information and thinking along with many flu like symptoms and I began to sleep 18 to 20 hours a day many days. Life changed drastically for me after that time. I had to go out of work for long spells of time and continued to try and find out what was wrong with me. At first doctors told me it was chronic major depression but I kept fighting with them and asking about all the symptoms that did not go with depression. It was a long road then and still is today. Answers did not come for years down the road. During this time, I married again and we had a little girl named Tia' who we lost at birth. Now in my third relationship and losing our daughter made things extremely difficult. He started drinking constantly which caused severe problems in our relationship and it ended shortly after her death. Another long story for another time. I started thinking about life and all the mistakes I had made and wondered if the health issues were God's way of telling me to slow down and look at life differently. I needed to put HIM first which I had strayed far away from. For years, I did not date or even think of dating.. I reached out to a few old friends during this time and tried to get closer to God but was still not living as I should. I became angry at God after a while for allowing me to stay sick. I started thinking that losing my little girl was the cause of me not getting well so in my human thinking, I had 2 more children hoping to fill the void that was left when Tia' died. I thought that the depression of losing her was keeping me from getting well. Boy was I way off base on that one but if I had it to do over, I would have to say I would do it again because they have given me reason to keep going and keep fighting to get well. There are times I just want to quit and give up. They are my blessings from God and I know it from the bottom of my heart. My last relationship ended due to a lot of physical and mental abuse as well as a finacial disaster. He robbed me blind in a short period of time but with God's help, I recovered from it all and have moved on. I have since been single or divorced for over 12 years now. I still see doctors on a regular basis and still don't have answers to a cure but I am still kicking and won't be a quitter. I decided that if I had to go out on disability, I would find something at home that I could do to stay in touch with the real world and find a way to get closer to God and witness for him at the same time. My dad got me my first computer. I learned to create WebPages and started my own sites. The first few were very poorly conceived but I was still learning and still am. I enjoy making websites and have done some for other people as well from my home computer. As time went on, I wanted to breed Persian cats and kittens so I got my first female and male in 1997 and off it took. It was something that could be done from home and allow for the health issues I had that kept me from being able to get out and make it to a regular job every day. From 1997 until 2007, I raised/bred Persian and Himalayan kittens and sold the...Expand for more