Grew up on a dairy farm, milking cows, starting at 4:30am and not finishing the day until 10:30 to 11:00 pm each day. Some days putting in as much as 16 plus hour days and all of this starting as a 9 year old, 365 days a year until I joined the Air Force and finally got to take it easy with only 12 hour days.

The Air Force changed my life. I met the love of my life (39 years ago) and we are still together now. Vicky is also an Air Force veteran.

It took 30 years to find out the great VA benefits that we share and are now making use of. The nice thing is we have a local VA Hospital and that means most of the classes and appointments we attend are local. Only a few appointments have to be at a larger hospital and for that the VA will provide or pay for transportation to where ever we have to go.

I want to thank Dr. Goldberger, a very special doctor that I met 30 years ago. He, now retired, was an old school doctor when it came to diets, weight lose, etc... I have gone back to following his advice (diet) and Vicky's encouragement that is making me very happy.