Cheryl Stoff:  

Life Hmmm...nothing outstanding to report. Just 'scrappily' married to the better part of who I wish I were...for about 38 years. I'm following in my mother's footsteps with a home filled with dust bunnies, webs created in obscure upper reaches by those nefarious "cobs", and a multitude of animals (dogs, cats, snakes, hermit crabs, breeding gouramis (sp?), an iguana or two. Of course, now that my two daughters are grown and out of the abode, we currently have only two cats as I refuse to have to walk a dog after working all day in front of a computer screen and then hauling my butt to the gym in futile attempts to maintain cardiac health and battle the possibility of type II diabetes. Medical technology is the route that I followed and have worked in a hospital designated as a regional dialysis and cardiac center (full time) at the same time working p/t in a Lev II trauma center in a city that made headlines for the most murders in a year. Thank God I didn't have to work blood bank there! Chemistry and crunching numbers was the game. During my stint in the lab, I was enlisted to work on an upgrade to the LIS system. So on 9-11-2001 I began my new career staring vapidly at a monitor through my progressive lenses...and remembering feeling helpless and a bit 'lost' when in class in FLA as the Twin Towers crumbled. Now I have two indelible memories burned in my brain...Nov.22, 1963 (Advance Biology class) and 9-11-2001, Clearwater, FL Soft Computer Consultants Softlab setup class. Destined to forever be a student and not a master of my universe. OK...so the grammer is shaky and the spelling is too; but at this age, I think we all deserve to be given a little slack! No grandchildren...my youngest is getting married this year. No babies in the plan...I must have been a horrible mot...Expand for more