If I could sum up all I am and all I want to be in just a few words, it is my
hope my friends and family would say it is "I Love" I want that to be what is
remembered about me. As a teenager I had some life-changing experience where I
watched two of my grandparents go through painful deaths. My grandfather had
prostate cancer. He suffered greatly, yet he was always sweet. I loved that man.
I inherited many traits from him including not going bald at 30 like my father.
He was a patriot. He was a thinker. He brought my mother from Germany on the
first boat to America after World War II. She was nine at the time.
The mother's mother died of colon cancer a few years later right at the time I
started teaching school. I was also a newlywed having been married a month after
I started teaching. Grandmother being sick and needing care, I invited her to
come live with us. We lived right next to my mother so my mother was going to
help take care of her. Bless my wife Nancy and my mother. Those were trying
times for all of us. Grandmother was always a fighter. That was wonderful. What
was hard was she got bitter. With life's experiences she allowed herself to
become bitter. We tried to take care of her. She was never happy. Finally, she
demanded we put her on the bus to leave us. It went this way with all the rest
of her family that would try to take care of her. She even left a resting home
near the end. Finally, she died in the home of a man that worked at resting
homes. She put her bitterness in him and made him promise to give her message at
her funeral. He did.
What a difference between the two people, my grandparents. I saw how almost the
same experience, the same suffering, cancer, was handled so differently. I
decided I wanted to be like my grandfather Hugo. I want to let go of the hurt. I
want to hang on to the good. We all have good experiences. We all have bad
experiences. It is our choice how we will remember them and how we react to
them. Behind every cloud there is a silver lining. Sometimes we have to work for
it, yet it is always there.
Now on to my story, my life.
I come from a large Mormon family. I am the oldest of a family of 10. My family
moved around a lot. No we were not in the military, that is just what my father
did. By the time I was 21 I had moved 24 times. I have lived all over the
central western states, UT, AZ, NV
I started in Salt Lake City, UT near Streetor Chevrolet. I used to sneak out of
the house and fenced yard to watch the new cars get washed until my mother found
out one day when the sales manager brought me home and told on me. We lived in
Salt Lake City until I started school, 1st grade. I missed kindergarten.
We moved to Logan, UT. I loved the snow, green grass, and water. We lived there
until I was in 5th grade when we moved to Cedar City, UT. I met prejudice there.
Having moved around much, I have always been on the outside of social groups.
That is my life. I am used to it. Even now in this town I have lived in now for
the last 19 years, I am still pretty much a loner. People know me but I am not
considered a close friend of anyone.
I went to junior high on the Indian reservation at Ft. Defiance, AZ. It was very
hot and dry there, sand everywhere. Very little grass. I always missed the grass
and green that was in Logan. The floods were neat as they flowed across the
parched ground engulfing all in their path. Once my family in our car late at
night jumped a flood with the car by accident. Scared us all to death. As you
can imagine, that was an interesting experience. By the time I left the Indian
reservation, I had many Navajo friends. I have learned from my many travels that
people are people everywhere.
More about me is available at the Health Resource Center -
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DB
Research, LC - David aka DrDA,
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