[KRISS]

What a great thread. This is the first time I've seen it since I was dx. It has been a great afternoon reading about all of you.

I started out as a stage actress and was very blessed to actuall make a living at it for close to 15 years.I got to travel and perform across the country. Most of the time I was in Chicago, Denver and Boston. I met my husband on the job in Boston. He was supplying the animals for the show. We have now been married for 10 yrs and our lives have done a 180. Figured it was hard to stay together when we were both on the road so we bought a large piece of property and opened an exotic animal sanctuary We had over 30 large cats, 15 primates and an assortment of smaller animals. We have scaled down over the past few years and I started working as a Zoo Keeper. Thank God for this job. I have never had health insurance before. I had only been employed at the zoo for a year before I was DX. They have been truely wonderful working with my sporadic schedule and my co workers are a givng and loving group of people. I's hate to see how my life would turn out without my husband, these people and the zoo it's self.