Bob was born in Panama in
1937. He moved to Southern California
with his family when he was 7 years old.
After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering at UCLA and a
Master’s degree in Operations Research at NYU, he worked in the computer and
telecommunications industry. While
working at Pacific Telephone Co. he met Carol.
His wife, Carol, had a Bachelor’s
degree from Wooster University and was in the first class of women admitted to
the Master’s program at Harvard University.
After a two-year courtship they were married on Dec. 31, 1984. The marriage created a “Brady Bunch” family:
three children from Bob’s earlier marriage and two from Carol’s first marriage.
Both Bob and Carol were
retired and living in Lafayette, CA (a small town in Northern California) when
Carol first detected a tremor in her left hand, foretelling the onset of
Parkinson’s disease. This was the start
down that long twisting path that is described in this book.
