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Show DELLA M. PETTY 2 2 DEL: Well you know I haven t really had too much wr ng ith- ll, let's put it this way, I've had a lot of operations but I ve come out of th m go d. Wh n I used to dance in high school I was doing the splits and my appendix bursted and th y rushed me to the hospital. I've had my tonsils out. I had cancer of my nose and they had to take half my nose off and do plastic surgery from cancer. BEC: You'd never know. DEL: At work, the gal caught my hands in the multigraph machine and I had to have plastic surgery on my finger and I don't have any feeling in that one little finger. I had kidney operations. But, I don't know, I don't feel bad at all; I feel good. And I think that is if you keep active in your life, keep your brain motivated, I think it keeps you young, because I don't feel old. See, I'll be eighty in December. BEC: No, you don't seem old at all, Della. DEL: I don't feel old, I really don't. And all my life I went with people younger than me. Like my husband, he was even younger than me. When we went to get married I asked him how old he was and he said, "How old are you." And he told me he was a year older. Till we went to get married I thought he was a year older and when we went to get married, he put 1927. And I said, "That's not right, Walter. You'd have to be born in '22 to be a year older than me." He said, "No, I was born in 1927" I said, "You couldn't be." He says, "Yes, I was." And I said, "You mean, all this time you lied to me." And he said, "Well, I thought if I told you I was younger you wouldn't go with me." So I didn't know he was that much (laughs), almost four-and-a-half years younger than me, until we got married. BEC: That's something. 25 |
