Roger Bastien:
CLASS OF 1972
Coventry High SchoolClass of 1972
Coventry, RI
Roger's Story
Besides the back injury, can't walk now I'm going BLIND. Had 2 cataract operations and guess what they didn't work. Now I get to have needles in my eyes which if they go wrong I will go blind. Imagine a photograpker who can't see. Big joke on me.
Alzheimer's ain't bad enough now add going blind
What next??
Now my chief tormentor in Coventry denies she ever did any thing wrong. Memory is bad but not that bad. Also her friends confirmed what she did. Just for fun.Even the guys say that she told rhem to make my life hell.. Well it worked so I hope she's happy? Who is this person? most of you know her so why cause more hurt. Life's the best revenge!. Just stay away I'm in a real bad mood.
WELL TIME TO SAY GOOD BYE IT'S BEEN FUN LIKE A ROOT CANAL. SO TO ALL MY FRIENDS I HAVE ONE QUESTION
WHY??? DID I EVER HURT OR DISRESPECT ANY OF YOU??? WAS IT FUN TO HURT ME?? ALL I WANTED WAS TO BE FRIENDS
GOOD BYE
Well almost 60 and looking back I did the best I could. Never hurt any one and never stepped on anyone on the way up or down.
Saw the light a couple of times. Wondered why I was sent back. Womans voice telling me I was still needed. Don't know what she ment.No one left or any one who really cares. I was ready to say goodbye to cruel world. Had too many so called friends use and abuse me.
7th back operation did not work. Still in great deal of pain. If you have an idea call.. Entire spine from C-1A to S-1-5 are fused. Cin's cancer is sleeping for now. Prayers worked. More needed.
So to any one who reads this Happy 60th Birthday.
12-26-13 Christmas was quiet. No visits or calls.Just as I like it. No phony best wishes or gifts to people who had stbbed me in the heart.
Classmates said I had 93 visitors but none left a note or mesage. People who I counted as friends never left a letter. Guess I was more of a friend than most of you were. Did I ever do any wrong to anyone?
41 years later and still no change. I treated everyone the same. Looking at my year book and found a bunch of notes about a fight I had. Some one was more impressed with worse event than all the good.
Merry Christmas and hope your grand children are treated better than you all treated me. Very few good memories from 5 years at Coventry middle and high school.
Hope you all had a good laugh.
3-14-13 Well, survived MI #3. The damage from the last one got worse. The damage is in the heart where it would cause more damage to go in and repair it,\. So I just wait till it hits again and get to the hospital in time.
What a life! I trusted friends and got stabbed inthe heart. People who I cared for used and abused me. It is still like CHS/ Nothing changes.
At this point in my life I hope that all of you the hurt me in the past and present will know the hurt you caused.It was fun to make fun of me and who cared. I was good for a laugh.
Who cared???
6-13
Got good news. Cins cancer is sleeping for now. It will return just don't know when. As for me operation number 7 is put off till Oct or November. Need time to heal. This will fuse L-1 to L-5 and maybe S-1. I want all the lumbar disc fused at the same time. Instead of doing half and then go back in to finish them later.
I need to have a internal pain pump installed to control the pain. It can be off the scale at times. Can't keep taking more meds every 6 hours. No way to live.
All the plans we had are gone. Money for retirement went a long time ago. Meds are expensive.
Just keep on praying and resting. Waiting for the next surgery that can't come soon enough.
On this Memorial remember the heroes who gave threir lives so we gave be free. Also remember the Police and fire fightfighters who run into danger when we run from it. And do not forget the parents who gave us what we needed to prepare for our lives. They went without so we could go to college and helped us start our families and the future. Remember they didn't make 6 figure incomes or neglect us so they had a better life. Go see your Grand Parents and your Mom and Dad and say thank for giving you life.And treasure that they are still with you. And if their gone remember them for what they gave up for you.
3-13 Well survived the 6th operation. BP crashed during surgery so it was shut down. Waited another week to try again. This one worked. Now I am fused from C-1 down to T-12.
Already seeing that I need the final operation to repair the entire lumbar region and S-1. After that ny entire spine will be fused.
Great. Only problem is that any trama to my back will be really bad. What a fun life so far.
Found that friends that I would do any thing for really do not care.
The knife to the heart is even worse when it's done by a friend. The few friends I had allowed myself to get close to got a lot smalller. SBDM
So remember do not put out your heart beCAUSE the last person you suspect will drive the knife in the deepest.
2012 has been a really long year. Spent 3 months all together in Kent ICU and other un...Expand for more
its. Not a fun way to spend the year. Lucked out last month with a heart attack. no major damage or surgery needeed just a warning.
I keep on saying that if in 1972 I knew the shape I would be in 40 years I would have had partied a whole lot more fun. Played it straight no drugs drinking or messing around. a real boring life. Thought that was the way to the "promised land". boy were they were wrong.
But would I really change the way I did things just to be popular... No Way. I never hurt anyone treated everyone guys and girls with respect. I can look back and say that I dio not regret anything I did.
Led my life with out preasure from anyone. If you didn't like me... So what.
May not have been popular but who cares how many of the classs can say that. You may have not been my friend but i never did anything to hurt you.
Others took advantage of me but their lost because you didn't get anything I wouldn't have given to you FREELY..
I can look back and say I liked myself and the things I did in Coventry High.
I had the respect of the most important person, the one who really counted ME.
40 years ago we left CHS for the world. Some made a splash and others made a thud..
I was in the hospital during the reunion. After 40 years I can call the friends I had. Didn't like the drama 40 years ago and really didn't want it again.
If you a true friend I will treasure our friend ship by calling you. Short list only a few on the list.
Because I wasn't extra smart or rich or on a team I had to take the name calling and jokes. Some thought it was funny to call me names or tease me. Right
I looked at my year book and I had more teachers and staff sign then I had students. I tried to do what I thought would make me popular. but there was always some one to put me down.
So after hearing Cindy being told to call a priest or on a strecher being rolled into ICU, twice, I have very little need to contact all my "friends." After 40 years I had little need to go to a reunion..
I have one hope that your children and grand children do not do to others what you all have done to me.
If you are reading this and you were part of the class that hurt me, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
iF you were one the few true friends. I'll be calling.
Roger B
,!!-11-11 Cins cancer came back last year and with the grace of the Lord she beat it. The doctors at Mass Gen gave me a miracle. The cancer will come back someday.
I have had 5 back surgeries in the past 4 years to try and save my spine from more injury. Just found out I will need another operstion when the last one is healed. Some time iin 2012.
We take one day at a time and enjoy lthe life we have. Don't have a "big house" or take trips but we have fun.
On Oct 5,2010 we lost our little angel, Emmy-lou. She was a service pup who helped a lot of woman at W&I deal with the horor of Cancer. She would spend time with the patients before visiting Cin on the 4th floor. She brought a little bit of happinessin bad times.
She passed in her sleep and is an angel in heaven. She never growled or did anything other than kiss and make people smile. See you at Rainbow bidge with Babes and Cocco.
We will miss her.
When a doctor uses the word "cancer" or when "that phone call comes" you look around and take a count of the memories, good and bad.
The little things that make her smile or the times when life is cruel, the way she makes things better with her smile.
People have many "friends" but when the sad, bad times come many will run away to avoid having to come to the realization that, they will experience the same feelings.
Treasure the ones that stay and help in their bad times.
The lost of a wife/husband, parent, brother, sister or child or pet is a part of life that we don't want to think about happening.
Strength to go on, is something we all have to face and learn from.
So take from life the good and the bad an cherish each moment.
So enjoy life and treasure the little things. If you are lucky enough to find your one true love, cherish them.
Look around and find the little things they bring to you.
So the life that was given to me, may not have been the best but it was the life I was given.
The so called "treasures" of a BIG house or car and the fancy clothes and JEWERLRY are here for the moment and will be gone in a blink.
Look inside your heart for the true meaning of Life.
Take a look around. Open your eyes as well as you heart.
Want Roger's answers to life's questions? Check out Roger's Q&A.
Three little girls. Babes, a border colie with the eternal smile. Cocco, a cocker-poo who loved to snuggle aand keep you warm and safe. Emmylou, a Brussels Griffon, who only gave love and hope. her kisses were magic and help people to endure the worst times. She was taken to save us from haveing endure her pain. All three babies are missed every second of the day. Their barks are silent but their echos will go on forever.
If you have a special llittle one treasure them.
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