Wendie Moore:  

Life After my husband finished Vet school at UF, we moved to Ocala, FL and have lived here for 24 yrs. I eventually went back to UF, commuting from Ocala, received my M.D. degree, completed residency and fellowship, and now practice here full-time in Diagnostic Radiology. We have two children: a son who is 15 and our daughter is 9. He likes tennis, swimming, camping and wakeboarding. Our son recently started school at a college prep boarding school in Atlanta and we are frequently heading up I-75. We usually stop in Lake City to eat. People say our daughter looks like my husband and acts like me! She is busy with activities after school and luckily still likes to do things with Mom. She dances, plays tennis and piano, takes art lessons and loves sleepovers. Our pets include a black lab, a black cat and 5 fish. After 21 years of being an equine vet, my husband retired for health reasons in 2002. He received a living, non-related kidney transplant in July of 2004 at Mayo in Jax from an "angel" acquaintance in Ocala. Our donor worked with me as an x-ray tech student and is the wife of a physician colleaque. Both Bruce and our donor are doing well and we feel incredibly blessed by our friend's "gift of life". She was discharged on the second post-op day and went back to work in 2 weeks. Bruce now has normal kidney function and a greatly improved quality of life. Both of my parents have passed away. My father died from colon cancer just two weeks after my son was born. My mom died from breast cancer in 1992 and lived with us for the last 6 months of her life. The closing for our house in Lake City was the same day as our 20th reunion and it was too emotional a day to go to the reunion. We w...Expand for more