Cheryl, Good luck with your surgery! :-)

Thank you! It's a quick procedure that involves folding back the corneal flap, then removing a thin layer of corneal tissue with a light from a excimer laser. After removal, the flap is replaced and bonds back into place without the need for stitches. It causes the center of the cornea to flatten, which changes the focusing power of the cornea, improving it to the point of no longer needing glasses or contact lenses to see with.

 The schedule was A LITTLE off

Sounds like that part of it hasn't changed!

I'm glad that you're doing good, Carol. I hope you won't need another surgery, amazing what the eye doctors can do these days. I hope all goes well with my LASIK surgery tomorrow. I have been wearing glasses, and contact lenses since 1981, can't wait to get rid of them! I have been trying since January to get the surgery done, but was not a candidate, because of a chronic infection in both eyes, and extreme Dry Eye. After MANY visits to the doctor who performs the surgery, was I finally able to clear up my eyes, and become a candidate for the surgery. Thought the day would never come!  

I'm sure I have seen Variety, just don't remember it. Bette, can you make a copy of that info you found and mail it to me? I just called some funeral homes in New York, so far one sounds like it might be promising, this man I spoke to is going to get the records from 1978, will try to do it today, and let me know what he finds out. This is the closest funeral home to where Craig lived. If that doesn't work, I have some more to call.  

Wow, it sounds like you went through alot yourself Cheryl.  Those were some days and I think every generation has it's share of youth problems, be it drugs,drinking or whatever.

True Cassandra, just wish I had said no to all of it, but I'm an overcomer. I really believe it's because of my parents prayers, and the prayers of others, who never stopped praying for me.  

I'm glad you had a good time, VAM and others from the board! I went 2 years ago to the Halloween event, will probably be the only time I make it there, glad I got to go once.

I end up walking most of the time, but if my neighbor, who drives her kids to school, happens to see me, she gives me a ride. I envy her, she has a son that has red hair. All of her other kids have blonde hair like my daughter. Getting back to the title of this topic, this morning, I was a parent helper in my daughter's class, I do that once or twice a week. I had come back to the classroom after finishing laminating some of the kids work in another room, and the teacher was talking about bats, of all things, I walk in on a lecture about bats, and hear him saying something about bats flying at night, and explaining a paper about bats that he wants them to work on. I  immediately thought of this topic, can't get away from Dark Shadows any place!  

The Las Vegas Library is the Central Regional Library here, also the Library District's administrative headquarters. There is a library at the college, UNLV, it's not open to the public though. I haven't done much with genealogical searches. I did a search on the Social Security Death Index last night, and found that info. Craig is his real name. Rusty is his nickname, because of his red hair. His close friends called him that, and some people only knew him as Rusty. When I was at the library yesterday, the librarian did a Google search on the computer, while I was looking through microfilm. She was unable to come up with anything that would help. I will keep searching. I have a lot to go by now. I also am going to request a copy of Craig Slocum's original SS-5 application. When I get that, it might help me further. Thanks for your help Luciaphil!