Thanks for mentioning me, Zoe, and Dr Denmark.  She wasn't actually my doctor though.  She was my son's pediatrician.  I have certainly wished that I could have also used her for my doctor, but I was too old.  That's just funny to even think - seeing as how she is now 108.  She is my friend.  She will be 109 on February 1st.  Her birthday is 2/1/1898.

Anyway, The Atlanta Journal recently had an article about what she's up to now.  I'm gonna try to paste it here.  I hope it works.  This lady has actually effected everyone, as she invented (created?) a commonly used vaccine that most - if not all of us - have probably had.  It's the Whooping Cough vaccine.  Hopefully I'll be able to get this pasted here.  The article even included some pictures.  I think she looks great for her age...

Nation's oldest practicing physician recalls her work
'If I could live it again, I'd do the same thing'

By BILL MONTGOMERY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/13/06

The confident, crisp voice that answered the phone on a recent morning — "Dr. Denmark," she said — sounds at least four decades younger than the five score and eight years the former pediatrician has lived.

But then Leila Daughtry-Denmark, who retired from medical practice five years ago at 103 as the oldest practicing physician in the nation, according to the American Medical Association, is not just any M.D. She has the Heroes, Saints and Legends award from the Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, which honors "healthy aging."

A native of Georgia's Bulloch County, Denmark was the only woman in the class of 1928 at the Medical College of Georgia. She began treating sick children the same year Mickey Mouse made his debut. By the time she retired, she was treating the grandchildren of some of her early patients.

Judy Godwin, a longtime friend, recalled how she brought her youngest child, daughter Jana, now 47, to Denmark to be treated for an ear infection when the girl was 4. It was well after dark and the doctor's lined face and loose gray hair, which was usually tied in a bun for work, "looked to [Jana] like a witch," Godwin remembered with a laugh.

"Dr. Denmark was elderly even then, but she knew what she was doing, and she wouldn't put up with any nonsense," Godwin said. Distraught mothers would be "moaning and groaning and she'd set them straight, tell 'em 'It's not the end of the world,' " she recalled.

The pediatrician's philosophy of life is just as direct, and simple:

"You keep on doing what you do best, as long as you can," Denmark said. "I enjoyed every minute of it for more than 70 years. If I could live it over again, I'd do exactly the same thing, and marry the same man."

Her views on child rearing also are unchanged. "One of the greatest favors granted on this earth is to raise a child. If we had every mother taking care of their children, we wouldn't need prisons," she said.

Leila Daughtry and John Eustace Denmark met in the two-room school in the Bulloch County community of Portal, near Statesboro, where Daughtry's father was the mayor, said Mary Hutcherson of Athens, their daughter and only child. Hutcherson said her parents married three days after Leila Daughtry graduated from the state medical college, becoming one of only 32 pediatricians in Georgia at the time. Denmark set up a private pediatrics practice in the couple's first home in Morningside.

Godwin said Denmark worked hard at her profession. "She was a wonderful doctor, and she had to be when she first started practice to achieve what she did," she said. "In that era, women could be schoolteachers and nurses, but not doctors."

In 1985, the Denmarks moved to south Forsyth County, where she continued to treat children in a 125-year-old converted farmhouse until she retired in May 2001. Eustace Denmark, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, died in 1990 at the age of 91.

Two years ago, Leila Denmark moved in with her daughter, who is now 75 and widowed; she was married to a University of Georgia professor.

Denmark said she is content. "I got a lot of phone calls from people when I first gave up my license, but not so many now. I sit on the sofa and let the world go by. I have a pleasant living, though I can't see and hear much. ... Mary takes care of me."

Although her eyesight and hearing are failing, there is nothing wrong with Denmark's mind. She has strong opinions on a number of topics, including food. "If you don't eat right, nothing you do is going to be worth doing," she said.

Her meals are always 5 1/2 hours apart, she said. "Every meal should have two vegetables, a starch and protein, and very little sugar.

"A cow knows what to eat, and to not eat anything poisonous to them. Humans should know that, too, but they usually don't act like it.

"Eating sugar is a bad thing. ... People with diabetes lose their muscles, they have terrible trouble with their bones from eating wrong, but they want what tastes good."

Hutcherson confided that her mother has developed a fondness for one sweet — dried mango strips. "And she enjoys a buffet place where we can get catfish on Fridays."

Hutcherson said her mother lights up when old friends get in touch.

"When people telephone, that's delightful for her. Television is no pleasure to mother because she can't see it properly. Maybe a Georgia Tech football game in the fall, because she used to watch them years ago in Atlanta. I'll give her reports on what's going on in the game," Hutcherson said.

Although Leila Daughtry-Denmark has lived many years, she "reflects very little on the past," her daughter said. "She's stayed very young-oriented. She doesn't dwell on 'the good ol' days' as so many people younger than she is do."

Despite of her hearing and vision problems and limited mobility, Denmark said there's nothing else wrong with her.

"My heart's perfect, my liver's perfect, my digestion's perfect. So I doubt there's a reason to think I'll go anytime soon."