Letter From Jeanine Sturgeon

Hey Mark!

I am sitting here at my lap top downloading the music I purchased yesterday at the Harvest Festival. I am glad that I looked at the back and pulled up your website.  I had mentioned yesterday that I wanted to email you a note during this past year and was glad that I had mentioned it.  So, now I am emailing you a note.

I first met you at last year’s Festival  and looked forward to seeing your booth at the Festival and thoroughly enjoyed visiting with you.  I love your music and I had said that I have listened to the six CD’s in the hundred’s of hours. I have them on my laptop, Ipod and I have a great stereo system in my truck that will allow me to put CD’s onto a Hard Drive so I don’t have to messing with CD’s.  All for my listening pleasure!

Well the main reason I wanted to write is to express how thankful I am to have had your beauitiful music in my life. This year has been a real eye opener with health reasons.  Not a long story I promise you, I had a emergency gall bladder surgery and that was a piece of cake.  What was a oh Sh**! was the two blood clots and pneumonia that was in my lungs two days after surgery!  Well, I spent two weeks in the hospital and over six weeks at home recovering.  But what I wanted to share with you is that how much your music meant to me during this past year.

My husband brought my IPOD to me when I was in the hospital, after I told him I didn’t want to aggrivated with music. (That meant I was REALLY sick) Well, he did, (I guess you already figured that out).  It sat for a couple of days, then I decided to pick it up and try to distract me from being there.  I picked your music and hit play.

The heart monitor stayed pretty steady at 125 beats per minute, which is really high.  I laid there and listened to your music for about 35 minutes and when I opened my eyes and just happened to look at the monitor, it had dropped over 20 beats!!!!  The nurse was walking in at that time as even made the comment about it, I said said, “I guess music does heal.”

Well I made it home and was on an oxygen tank for almost a month and had to stay in the house for over six weeks.  Which is ok considering I live in Big Bear and in January and February is nasty most of the time.  But the cold air was good for lung expansion.  Anyway, I continued listening to your CD’s even the Christmas ones and my heart rate dropped, my breathing became deeper and slower.

Now I am back to being in fastastic  health, and I still listen to your CD’s consistanly! I think I have all of them as of yesterday!  Well I have 12 and I see that your website says you have 17!  OK only five more to get.

I mentioned to you yesterday about enjoying the stories of your wife and what she has written, it is so nice to see two people very much in love.  That is such a rare gift.  Please tell Roberta to continue writing I truly enjoy her stories.

I told my girlfriend Kim that we had to come up with drinking names.  She absolutely agreed.  My told my husband when I got home last night about Roberta’s name of Angel Biscuit.  He just laughed, I don’t know if I want him to play in that game, I don’t know what kind of name he would think up, considering my nickname is Froggie!  Don’t ask.

Anyway, enough of this email.  I just really wanted to say thank you and I will always be a fan of yours! Hey, welcome to LA.  I look forward to getting emails from you to see where you are at.  I would love for you to sometime play in Big Bear.  If I can help in anyway I will, let me know if you would be interested.

Thank you for sending out the Angel Biscuit I look so forward to it!

Take care my friend!

Jeanine Sturgeon