After a pretty severe car accident and spending thirty days in a rehab hospital,she learns from one of her doctors that the brain can not think of two things atthe same time. He told her to try something like writing. She did but found trainingher standard poodle to become a therapy dog was working fine. She could takeher to hospitals and nursing homes and forget the pain. Then after ten years, herdog died so she gave writing another try. It worked. She graduated high school inupstate New York and then went to FIT in Manhattan. She lives with her husbandof fifty-four years and has two sons and four granddaughters. Writing is for her asshe goes through more procedures and tests. it still takes the pain away. So shewrites and writes and is training another dog.