Autobiography

[Guest guest]

Tina: Thanks for your encouragement about writing the saga of my life.

You can judge by my posts to cfparents that I am wordy (an

understatement), so to save our precious earth, I would not want

thousands of trees to be cut down to make the pulp for my book. As an

aside: when my mother and sister visited my mother's family in

Connecticut one summer before my sister was diagnosed with CF, my sister

became ill. A local doctor had X rays taken, and immediately after

reading them, ordered her to be sent to the active ward of a tubercular

hospital. There she was in a ward with TB active patients. My mother

was furious, and it was Hal to the rescue. I was in my second year at

law school, and of course no one knows more law than someone who has

completed one year of law school. I informed the doctor that either my

sister be released or he would face the wrath of the courts. She was

released and we went to Boston to her doctor who had treated her for

bronchiectasis and he put her on the proper regimen. Hal