Thursday, January 5, 1984

Love called! The new angiogram is completed and the treadmill test results are in. He has five blocked arteries, one completely blocked. He has a high pain threshold and is experiencing heart attacks all the time, although he doesn't feel them, a not too common occurrence. No wonder he could drive himself to the hospital, and not experience any pain on the treadmill. The Danville Veteran's Administration hospital's cardiologist told him he was a time-bomb. Unfortunately, the Indianapolis Veteran's Hospital is the hospital that will do the surgery and is booked-up for four to six months, even though he needed immediate bypass surgery last March. They will make an appointment for surgery, and try to rearrange their schedule, so that someone who is not as likely to die between now and then will be postponed. The surgeon told him that he will be off work for one to two months. At least Love will have time to arrange for finances in the meantime. The hospital told him he couldn't get any disability benefits from the Veterans's Administration agency. He will be released tomorrow.

My neighbor doesn't like my dogs barking at him and his family.
Dear Neighbor, You don't understand why my dogs bark the way they do, so, I will enlighten you. Between 1971 and 1973, I was robbed three times of everything portable: televisions, radios, clocks, diamond watches and earrings. I moved here in 1970, and was financing everything at 18% interest. The diamond stuff I've never had the money to replace, but I could replace the portable goods at 18% interest, even though I hadn't completely paid off the first and second portable goods stolen. I ended up financing the exact same articles at 18% interest, plus 18% interest, plus 18% interest. Then I put up a fence surrounding my property that cost $300.00 installed, bought my male dog at a cost of $280.00 and had him trained at a cost of $225.00 to defend me and/or my property. I haven't been robbed since. Twice I have been personally attacked, and have given the 'attack and hold' command to him, and both times he probably kept me out of the hospital with serious injuries or the morgue. He can jump the fence any time he wants, but he doesn't because he was trained to defend me and my property. He will not hurt you! The barking at the fence, which incidentally, is over a foot inside my property line, is simply a warning that he is there to protect me and my property. Outside of this yard, he wouldn't attack, except upon my command. He loves children; my ex-housekeeper's two year old boy used to ride him like a horse.

It's not easy being a woman alone. I am buying and have furnished this house, and raised a family on $4.00 an hour, working part-time and full-time. Love is extremely ill with heart disease, and my seventy-seven your old mother and I are alone and defenseless. I don't own a gun, and wouldn't know how to use one, if I did. My dogs are our only defense. My dogs are not simply pets to me, nor never have been. Someday my dogs may alert you - that you are about to be attacked, robbed, or your wife raped - in time for someone to do something about it. You can rest easier when you are away from home, because my dogs do draw people's attention that something is amiss in the neighborhood.

An Ex-Ripped Off Neighbor

PS Why didn't anyone of my neighbors notice that people were breaking into my house to rob or rape me and report it to the police - perhaps, because there was no noise to alert them to look out of their windows.