It was a Monday, as I recall, and I had finally run out of my supply of Hadacol that I had hoarded in the '50's and carried with me all these years. It doesn't happen often, but I was feeling......"out of sorts,"........"blue"........"down in the dumps"........if my Mother had been here, she would have said I looked "peak id." (Pronounce like two words.)
This was serious. So, I emailed my favorite physician, Dr. Linsy Farris, and too embarased to complain about my symtoms...I simply asked how he was doing.
He instinctively perceived my problem and responded with the perfect prescription:
A double dose of POSITVE!
Turned out to be just what I needed!
Turned out to be just what I needed!
Take a look:
"It's just marvelous and wonderful to still be enjoying the good life and filling it with things I enjoy during retirement on 1/1/16 from my position at Harlem Hospital as Director, a position I've enjoyed fro 43 years as part of Columbia University. My worse event has been the loss of my wife of 51 years , Vivian, in June of 2011 due to breast cancer. Life really has it's adversities such as a fire that destroyed our church's Sanctuary on Tues, Mar 22. Resurrection is the saving by God's grace that sure applies to our lives while on this earth as well.
I'm blessed to have three children,k one , a daughter Karen, who lives in the same town of Tenafly with three of my grandchildren and two sons, Alan and Andrew who live outside Charlotte and DC with a total of the other five grandchildren. One of my grandchildren , Nora Neus, is now in your business as a TV Reporter for Charlottesville Virginia NBC29. I am also blessed to be married again to a young lady. Ursula Schell, who I first met fas a science writer when she came to write up some of my research. She is a musician as well which is my major pastime now.
Ursula and I also sing in our church choir, First Presbyterian of Englewood,NJ and I joined a barbershop singing group of men recently. I do feel many times in spite of life's sorrows, I am LMA (luckiest man alive). My experience at CHS was life forming and I'll never forget the influences that Jack Stern, the band Director from NYC who showed me a bass fiddle one day and said, "I'm going to get you out of study hall and you're going to learn how to play this". Also, my teacher and advisor, Paul Neal, who helped me get scholarships to both UNC and Duke. I asked him when I got offers from both what should I do. He shot back,"What do you want to do?" I replied, "Well Duke has a good medical school and I want to be a doctor". He said, " Well write Duke and tell them that". I did and they gave me $50 dollars more. Tuition in those days at Duke was $450 per semester. Yes, I have truly been blessed My Christian faith that allow me to communicate regularly with my Father and Creator and certainly provides the path to follow and help me control any worries.
It's just marvelous and wonderful to still be enjoying the good life and filling with things I enjoy during retirement on 1/1/16 from my position at Harlem Hospital as Director, a position I've enjoyed fro 43 years as part of Columbia University. My worse event has been the loss of my wife of 51 years , Vivian, in June of 2011 due to breast cancer. Life really has it's adversities such as a fire that destroyed our church's Sanctuary on Tues, Mar 22. Resurrection is the saving by God's grace that sure applies to our lives while on this earth as well. I'm blessed to have three children,k one , a daughter Karen, who lives in the same town of Tenafly with three of my grandchildren and two sons, Alan and Andrew who live outside Charlotte and DC with a total of the other five grandchildren. One of my grandchildren , Nora Neus, is now in your business as a TV Reporter for Charlottesville Virginia NBC29. I am also blessed to be married again to a young lady. Ursula Schell, who I first met fas a science writer when she came to write up some of my research. She is a musician as well which is my major pastime now. Check out jazzdoctors.com and Skylinerbigband.com."
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