D. Irene Ramirez

My birthday is June 28, 1947. I grew up in Davenport, IA and lived in a few different Iowa cities, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Marion, until June of 1994. I moved out to California then. I have never looked back. I am incredibly happy in California.

The end of February, 2017, my only sister and only sibling, sold her condo here in California, bought a mobile home and is going to tour America with her husband for two years. Then she's going to resettle back in Iowa. She asked me if I'd ever move back to Iowa. I told her I'd rather die. She was a little put out.

The puppy in the picture is Gordon. He was supposed to be mine, but his breeder couldn't part with him. The breeder did refund the deposit I'd put on Gordon.

The 8th of January, 2017, I started taking a natural, food based nutritional supplement. Ten days later the fibromyalgia I'd been diagnosed with in 1999 was completely and totally gone. I had been in a wheelchair for 15 years because of the severe pain of that fibromyalgia. I am now back to walking everywhere. I walk the dog I do have for thirty minutes twice a day. She loves it, and so do I.