Re: [TMIC] OT - Kathryn's post

[Kathryn Keen]

Hi Todd, Thanks .  That was actually a photo of my daughter Jacqueline.  I was just the photographer.  I didn't put any photos of myself on the site. :-[ Those were some of the 6 baby flying foxes I reared that year, and because I was a supervisor for these animals at that time, I also took into the creche another 8 from other wildlife carers I was supervising, as well as having some adults in care already, as well.  I've also handreared possum and glider joeys, wallaby joeys; and a multitude of various native birds over 14yrs of doing it, as well as having worked in the Australian mammals division of Taronga Zoo, and a brief stint at the Australian Reptile Park as well.  I was there only a year ago, but it seems like a lifetime away now.  I don't know how people come to terms with this dreadful disease, and all it steals from your life.  I guess it must just take time to accept, but it seems so hard.  I've found friends and family also don't seem to feel comfortable around me anymore, and don't quite know what to do with me.  When they visit, they now seem in a rush to go again.  There's just not much to talk  about anymore.  Anyway; I'm sure you all have lost heaps in your lives as well.  I'm just having a bit of a hard time accepting things at present.  Kathryn Todd Tarno wrote: Hi Kathryn, Got to see your picture with the Grey Headed Flying Fox Juvenile bats hanging off your shirt.  It looked like you had a lot of fun times and wonderful memories there. Todd, in Corpus Christi, TX