Dad aka Willis Stinnett, Jr. and Buddy

Thanks to Dr. Robert Keller’s formulation of MaxGXL I got my father back!  Mentally alert and with it was not words I could use to describe my father prior to Max.  4 years later and I still can!  Thank you Dr. Keller!

Marriage Proposal

Dad asks a lady to marry him.

My Credentials

I want to take a minute to tell you about my credentials.  I had someone ask me the other day if I was a doctor or a nurse.  Here is my answer: I am not a doctor.  I am not a nurse. I have worked with doctors in various fields and currently have many partners [...]

Standing Guard 1971

I Fell In Love With My Daddy Again

How did I go from thinking dad belonged in a nursing home to moving him in with my family?     There was some information missing from my last post. I failed to mention that I had fallen in love with my father again. What do I mean by falling in love with him? Well a little [...]

Nowhere but Up

Dad goes from bedridden to riding his scooter around the block in about 6 months!

Runaway Days

My step-mom has a huge heart.  She should have divorced my dad long before he was helped to divorce her.  No matter how hard things were at our house with dad’s drinking she never left us kid’s.  She could have.  She eventually left with my youngest half-brother Josh who was in High School.  She and [...]

Family Squabbles

So dad has the beginning stages of dementia. Hmm. He has just had a stroke and his right side has been affected. The doctors and nurses encouraged dad to fill out an Advanced Directive while in the hospital and I helped him.* My step-mom came up from Tennessee to help me figure out what needed [...]

The Beginning

On November 25, 1964 my mother gave birth to a little girl she named Julie Ann. I was the first of four children she gave birth too. The doctor who delivered me was named Dr. Julian. My deduction this many years later is that my mom had the hots for her doctor. Never asked her [...]