Darlene Jones:  

Well, as anyone who remembers me from Junior High & High School know, I was teased mercilessly, called names, and tormented to no end. So, unfortunately, my High School days are not a pleasant memory for me. I did have a few friends, Rosario Jimenez, Debbie Strong, Freda Golden, Linda Goodwin, Jimmy & Dennis Tearney, Dean Snodgrass to name a few. But, in the long run it made me a stronger person and I don't put up with crap from ANYONE!!! After two failed marriages I met the love of my life, Charlie Jones and we were married on Feb. 12th, 1987. He took in my two children as his own, adopting the youngest one and we adopted two more children from my previous marriage. We had a wonderful life together. Charlie passed away on Oct. 4th, 2000 from a massive heart attack. He took a huge part of my heart with him on that day. Two years later on Oct. 3rd, 2002 my beautiful mother passed away. Three weeks later on the 29th of Oct. my precious grandson passed away from S.I.D.S at 4 1/2 mos. old. October hasn't been a good month for me obviously. On August 3rd, 2003 I suffered a brain aneursym rupture. It was in my brain stem and the worst kind you can have. It was inoperable, but they had a new procedure where they do an arterial gram, going in through the groin to the brain, and fill the rupture with platinum coils. I was the 6th person to have this procedure done in the brain. After 4 coilings and a stent I am doing...Expand for more