May 2010: Eleanor & Ernie Hyde of 4538 Pickwick Drive

Eleanor Hyde was in such pain and felt hopeless but knew that she had to get out of bed and get up and get moving to survive. She had to remove the thought of just laying there and making it worse. She and her husband, Ernie, had moved to their home at 4538 Pickwick Drive in Limestone Gardens in 1961, two years before our arrival in the already-converted home, into a doctor's office that is, of Dr. Stanley Verbit at 4546 Pickwick Drive. She would become my dad's patient around 1965 - her memory is impeccable - and learn from him in 1984 that she had breast cancer. She underwent chemotherapy for a year and was told she needed more treatment, but she'd had enough and stopped, against doctor's orders, the drugs. It appeared to be a death sentence but Eleanor has triumphed and continued to teach and care for her ailing husband to this day. She loves reading to her 5-year-old grandson, the child of their only child, a daughter.