7-20-17
65th
Birthday Letter Part 2
I write
birthday letters to my grandchildren about their births and things that happen
in their lives. I kept journals of their mom’s life. No one will be around to tell the
grandchildren about the birth of their grandma.
So I am going to try. One thing
that I remember my mom saying was that she was going to name me June. I was supposed to be born in the month of
June, but I pushed my way out on Tuesday, July 1, 1952 at 1:45pm. I did not want the name June Bedrosky, not
that Rene Juanita Bedrosky was any better.
I was 22 ¾ inches long and weighted 8lbs 5 1/2 ozs. My mother was Deloris Helen Bussell Bedrosky
age 22 and my father was PFC Richard Charles Bedrosky age 23. At the time of my birth he was in the army stationed in
Germany. I was born at St. Catherine’s
hospital in Omaha NE by Dr. Anthony Ross Pantano. My birth cost $125.25 while the hospital charged
$9.50 a day. My mother could see me at
9:30 am, 1:30 pm, 5:30 pm, 9:30pm. My
baby bracelets cost $1.00 upon leaving the hospital. Does that mean I did not have it until
checkout, so maybe I was switched at birth?
Fathers saw their child at delivery and then once each evening between
7:30-8:30.
I have a lot of information regarding my
birth since I was the first child of four.
So my mother saved things like Reminders for Maternity Patients, bills
for my birth and crib, presents, clothes, cards etc.
I threw out some of my baby things, five years ago when I was
downsizing. I saved paper things that
could be kept in a three ring binder. I
have my baby hair samples and a 14k gold baby ring. If I had remembered that ring, it would have gone
to the pawn shop when we cashed in most of all the gold and silver we had for
the money. I even was selling my wedding
band, along with class rings, etc. When
I got home I threw the bag that I had everything in a drawer. Months later I got the bag out and there was
my white gold wedding band. I had lost
weight and my current wedding rings were too loose, so I wear the smaller
original band on top of the loose rings.
Speaking of saving things, I still have the necklace that my father sent
me at birth from Germany. I’ve worn it
at times, but will be handed down to children or grands, or taken to a pawn
shop when we need money for nursing care in our later years. Funny thing about life, you come into the
world costing $125.50 and leave costing thousands, if not more. We have bought our grave sites and marker, so
one less cost. It was a weird feeling
seeing our grave site marker. I am not
one to visit grave sites, but I checked my mom’s site maybe a couple of years
after her death, and they had not entered her death date that I had paid
for.
When I was born I lived at 1203 ½ South 11th
St. I think I remember my mom saying the
house had a stone lion at the entrance by the side walk. I later lived on A street by St. Thomas More in a house that my dad built in the so called country. Too many neighbors, so we moved to 1403 Elm. Elm
street was in a hollow on a dead end street with just a few neighbors.
The house even had an out house until my dad added a septic tank and a
bathroom. All four kids shared a bedroom in the beginning. I was in 2nd grade when we moved to Elm St., and went to St. Patrick’s grade
school.
I was baptized as an infant on
9-14-52 at St. Philomena, the church my parents were married at on July 28, 1951. My dad must have had a leave from the army
nine months before my birth, since he was in army during his wedding. Maybe my mom met up for a visit when he was stationed in
US for training nine months before my birth. I don’t remember how my
parents even met. Kids, grandpa and
grandma met at South High senior year.
Grandpa lived less that I mile from my house and we knew a lot of the
same people. We were in English class
together, and I was the cute, thin, quiet girl with the long blond hair. Grandpa had hair back then that was dark, and
weighed a lot less because he played baseball.
Our families did not have things like chips, ice cream, sweet cereals,
pop etc. We gained the weight after we
got married. Brought the stuff we did
not have as kids and even ate fast foods, or went to restaurants.
Grandkids that is just the little bit that I
know about my birth, more info can be found in my binders. You will see other
things like my old pay checks, report cards, and other things I saved. I took pictures of the things that I threw
out like books, art projects that I had saved from my childhood. I am still
wondering if I may have been switched at birth.
Weston when you were born we thought you were, even though I was at your
birth. You had dark hair, and looked
like a foreign baby next to the blondes’ of your siblings. You now look just
like them, I still have a hard time telling you and Easton apart in pictures,
and Katelyn has glasses now, so I can tell the girls apart now except in dance
videos, since Kate does not wear her glasses.
I don’t think I look like my family.
