Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My long-promised photo story is up on my web page (see below). It's about a woman named Rosie. She has survived lung, breast and ovarian cancer, has arthritis, and is raising three grandchildren for a daughter. The kids are 4, 9 and 11 (I think). She also helps her husband, Bob, raise horses, dogs, cats, chickens, goats and whatnot on the family farm. She went on the Calamity Jane trail ride (Calamity Jane for you non-yanks is an old wild-west character who lived with Wild Bill Cody for a while). The ride was 18 miles long. She was going to ride half the way, and her husband, who also has arthritis, was going to go the second half after meeting her half-way. She felt so good, she decided to go the whole distance herself. She not only finished the ride, she stuck around for the pig roast and then danced that night with her grandkids at the ho-down. (The trip was in part a day away from the grandkids). Last week she called me up and said she was getting phone calls from all over, and people were clipping the page out and sending it to her. Every time she'd go to town people were calling to her and telling her they thought she was an inspiration. The photo essay itself is quite simple, nothing spectacular. But it tells one small story of many about a lady who is a real survivor. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes