The Up's and Downs of TINA'S LIFE

Tina Marie Moschgat's life began on august 2 , 1967. Tina was a beautiful bundle of joy weighing 5 pounds 6 ounces and had the curliest hair you have ever seen. Tina was born in Johnstown Pa. to Joan and George Moschgat, the town was a rural city totalling 6.1 miles. Johnstown was a place to raise a family, a place where everyone knew everyone and nothing ever happened,until Tina came into the world. Tina was the baby of the family, she had two brothers Andrew 3 and George age 11 months. Tina was a very good baby, then she turned two and it was a challenging life for her after that. Tina's life was filled with events that made anyone wonder how she survived and was still the most joyful person you would have ever wanted to know. Tina could light up a room with her very presence. Tina was a tomboy from the start, she loved to follow her brothers. Outside is where Tina loved to be, she was the kind of child that if you took your eyes off her for two seconds she would get into mischief. Tina was four and this began her courageous life. On a day like any other Tina was ouside playing with Andrew and her Pops, when all of a sudden Tina ran across the road and was hit buy a car doing fifty miles an hour and flew fifty feet into a stack of wood that sat in front of the house. The speed limit was only twenty five miles an hour and not even heavily traveled. Tina had suffered severe brush burns over ninety five percent of her body. Tina was in the hospital for a week following the accident where she could not where any clothes due to the severity of the burns. Tina had to undergo daily painful cleaning of the burns for several months. Tina took it all in stride, and recovered with no outward scars but she now knew to look both ways before crossing the road. Tina was the kind of person who always had alot of friends, at the age of five Tina and two of her girlfriends went up the railroad tracks to a tree vine where they enjoyed swinging on it. One of the girls climbed on the vine with Tina and they both fell to the ground. Tricia was one of the little girls that was with her and she's the one that climbed on the vine with her. When she climbed on the vine with Tina the vine broke and they fell to the ground. Tricia landed on top of Tina knocking her unconscious, Tricia and Robbie the other friend carried Tina about a quarter mile to get her help not realizing the severity of Tina's injury. These two brave children took her to Tricia's house because they knew Tina's mother was at work, Tina's mothers office was right up the street from their home. Tricia's mother took Tina to her mother at work, the paramedics were waiting when they arrived. The paramedic's noticed there was a bone sticking out of Tina's arm, they took Tina to the hospital where her arm had to be reset and they put her in a full arm cast. Now when Tina was six she was outside playing with her brother George who picked up an axe and began swinging it around, unfortunately Tina was behind him and George not realizing this hit her in the forhead splitting her eye open. Once again Tina was being rushed to the hospital to have stiches. The doctor said Tina was very lucky that she didn't lose her eye. Later that that summer Tina was at the park with her family swimming she got stung by a bee, again she was rushed to the hospital because she was going into anaphalatic shock. Tina was active as we have seen as was liked by all who knew her.One day when Tina was seven she had a discussion with her mother that did not go her way, so Tina packed her bags and climbed out her window and went next-door to her longtime childhood friend Tracy. Tina's mother knew right where Tina was and knew that she would decide to come home. Tina always did well in school, her grades were excellent but her behavior always kept her in trouble.