Retired from Metro as of July 2011....Never felt so relieved in my life......all that stress gone.....now just have to learn to survive on what pension money my greedy ex-wife has left me.
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Time for lots of motorcycle riding, hanging out with my daughter and grandkids, and keeping up with all my little projects....
1973-1974, GM-0987, Naval Medical Clinic (NMC) San Diego (Balboa Naval Hospital)
Best Friends My future brother-in-law, MS3 Ralph Lease, who ended up in the bed next to me, and consequently met and married my wife's younger sister. They would come from Tijuana, where we lived to visit me. Ralph and Maria got married, and had some great kids. He and I even ended up both working for Immigration some years later, in the Chula Vista Border Patrol Sector. .... and My doctor...CDR Watkins....repaired my knees so well, I am virtually trouble free....and, for my three months of rehab, he put me to work as his office assistant/nurse...instead of condemning me to a janitorial job, like everyone else in rehab
Best Moment When I was released from the Orthopedics ward and allowed to go home....After three months in plaster....just in time to have my daughter born at Balboa....For the few days she and her mother were in the hospital, I could go visit whenever I had a chance....
Worst Moment Looking out the window of the ward, seeing the lights of Tijuana....but not being able to go home to see my family....I was actually in the hospital for about three days before I finally got word to my wife, who was pregnant, down in Tijuana. We lived there because she was waiting for Immigration to issue her a green card.
Other Memories Sitting in a wheelchair, in my pajamas, attending the mandatory Vasectomy classes....with a half dozen couples....
