Thank you from Maddi in Gustine (a small farming city in California)

[Guest guest]

Hello again everyone,

Thanks to Larry in Baltimore, Arne in Minnesota, Maureen (wife of

Jim), Barbara (UK), and Deanna (Dee in Peoria, wife of Bob), for all

of your welcomes, advice, encouragement, and new sites to meander

through! You all answered my note so quickly! I am a little

ignorant of PSC because (thank the Lord), the main problem mine

caused me (so far) has been pancreatitis and diabetes. It hasn't

affected my liver as of yet. My PSC is in the pancreatic duct (and

stangely enough, my sibling Debbie also has the same malody.) My

docs think the PSC is a result of Chrone's Disease or vice/versa??

My sister Deb also has Chrone's Disease and pancreatitis, but has

faired much better than I).

I am 52 years old (last December 16.) I live in a small farming city

(4,000 population) in California. Gustine lies in or around San

Juaquine Valley. It is 3 hour car drive south of Sacramento and

about 1 and a half hour drive south east from San . We are 2

hours from San Francisco and about the same distance from Santa

Cruz/Monterey area. We are about 1 and a half hours west of Yosemite

National Park. I am the wife of Jim (he will be 52 in May) and

mother of Amy (she just turned 15 in November). I collect anything

froggy or anything that looks like snowmen. I love musical comedies

(especially and Hammerstein), but enjoy most any type of movie

that has a good storyline or plot. I just like to be entertained! I

also paint (I especially like landscapes and seascapes, but can be

coerced into trying a portait), and can spend hours fritting away at

arts and crafts when my sit-upon feels well enough to sit upon it.

Jim works for Fed Ex. He drives a truck and picks up and delivers

packages at places of business in San . I used to teach Computer

lab at Hillsdale Elementary School in San , but eventually got to

sick to continue. I now collect SSI. My Amy is a sophmore in High

School and can't wait to graduate (so she says, but I see how bored

she gets during vacation with no school.) We have three dogs, 5

cats, two lizzards, (a water dragon named Puff, and a bearded dragon

named Godzilla), and two Cockatiels named Beanie and Cecil. As you

guessed, I take in animals that people no longer can take care of.

They all seem to get along just fine.

I have had numerous surgeries because of pancreatitis, Chron's, and

proctitis. My doctors think that all of my illnesses link back to

Crohn's disease.

Well, I probably bored you all too much, so I will end this letter

with hopes that God will bless you all and that everyone's health

will pick up.

Love,

Maddi from Gustine, California