18 years: I started having pain in my right side and they put my in the hospital with hepatitis. I was in the hospital for a month.
28 years: After Matt was born, I started feeling bad, couldn’t function. Had double vision, changed doctors went with Dr. Brooks. He diagnosed insufficient adrenal glands, which is addison’s disease and hypothyroidism. I went on cortisone and felt so much better. I have been on cortisone since then.
I would get stomach flus and couldn’t stop vomiting. I would need to go to the hospital because I would get dehydrated. After a while Herman would give me shots to stop the vomiting so I wouldn’t get dehydrated. This happened often in my life.
Mom’s Family, the Stiner’s had Mom skin cancer, Paul and Russell had prostate cancer that went into the bone, Norma Jean had dementia starting when she was in her 80’s, Firman died at 63 years old of heart disease. At the time if he wanted to have open heart surgery he’d would have had to go to Texas. Dad died of a stroke in 1965. My brother Tip was killed in a train accident with his wife.
