Carole Woods:  

Life I was diagnosed with Multiple Myelome on May 10, 2002. I have been in treatment since then. I have had a tandem transplant (2 transplants) of a very poisonous chemotherepy. I ask that everyone please pray for me to remain in remission and to gain strenght. I have failed to recouperate; so I am in the "comfort" area of treatment. Lots of pain meds!!! As healthy as I've always been, it never occured to me I would get cancer. In advance, thank you for your prayers on my behalf. Carole woods (2004) (2006) Update: I am still in remission (PTL), and will know for sure next month when they do my 10 or 12th bone marrow aspiration. I am a glutton for pain. Thank you all for your prayer support. It's what has kept me going. School I remember going to Rule for the first time when I started the seventh grade. My tough mother did not walk or drive us to school. We were big kids, she said when I started the first grade, and could get ourselves to school. Did I mention we walked miles in the snow, upward both times--barefooted? My kids love that story! :) I loved school. I loved volleyball, and played on the school team the whole 6 years I was at Rule (yes, we would have liked to have more players with better abilities than we had). We did have fun--when we went to meets, we always lost. We had dances at the school, and I went to quite a few, including 2 proms (in fact I met my husband at a dance (but not at Rule). I understand a 63 grad with the first name of Jay (I used to dance with him) has a ministry now. Also, Charlie Lawson (I never danced with him) has a ministry at Temple Baptist of Fountain City. Congrats, fellas. Have things changed in that area? My daughter married the man she took to both proms. We still have him! When I was at Rule High, it was a "happening" school. We won radio contests for most school spirit, and I forget the other contests we won on radio. Although I was not a cheerleader or a beauty queen,I did win a telephone by my mother answering our phone with "Pepsi, please". I owned a pink princess phone with my own number for a year. How I missed that phone when it was gone. We would absolutely not have 2 phone lines at our house. We did have a lot of phone jacks, though. My dad fixed that up for us. However, we did not have one in our bathroom--and both my condo bathrooms have telephones in them. For what reason, I don't know--it came that way. :) While at Rule I thought I was fat at 115 pounds. I laughed when my daughter declared she was fat, in a size 6-8. How I loved school! I cried at graduation because it was the end of an era for me. I hardly ever see anyone from sc...Expand for more