Eight years ago.. I could walk.. I was strong.. I could chase my 2 year-old little boy around the house while also enduring the nausea I was experiencing during the first trimester with my second son.  Eight years ago our country was strong.  Of course we were naive.. but we felt a great pride in our prosperity and during this "quiet period" we were able to relax.  But in the end our cherished President lied to Congress and to us too.. We crumbled a little bit and started losing our power and belief in our governorship.  At the same time I started feeling weak.. I felt kinda numb.  I didn't really start thinking I was in trouble health wise until about the time Al Gore lost the White House to a C+ student whose brother just happened to be the Governor of the "Great State of Florida". That year the President of the United States was decided by a hand recount of archaic paper ballots and a Supreme Court ruling.

The Democratic Party was in pieces and I started visiting doctors.  9/11 happened and I was glued to the news.. In those years I still believed the news was the "un-biased" truth!  After the "Anthrax" scare was finally finished.   The news then began a "what if" on biological warfare and began showing gruesome pictures of small pox boils I was officially "freaked out"  and I started walking with a dragging gait... I walked clumsily over to the TV and turned it off for a good year.

To be continued....