It seems to me that accomplishments are getting easier than they should be. That the bar has been lowered in everything we do, and that cannot be a good thing. My first year of public school, I started out in the third grade. Comming from a school for handicapped kids, where I got mostly A's, …
Month: May 2011
Awards
I played in the "United Cerebral palsy" games in the early 80's. Won some medals and ribbons. But I'm most proud of the award I won in sixth grade. At the beginning and end of the school year we had to take a test in gym class. A fitness test that was made up of …
Limiations
As a child with a disablity, I felt like I was alittle more mature than the other kids. Sometimes because I wanted to be. Most of the time because I had to be. I get the feeling it's that way for most, if not all disabled kids. They don't want to act grown up, they …
Passion
I never was a big reader in school, or anywhere else for that matter. I did everything in school but school work. I was only there to be social. I wasn't interested in anything but sports at that time. It wasn't until six years ago that I found my passion. I didn't know it was …
Bits & Pieces
Isn't it funny how much we don't remember, or choose not to remamber? I was looking at some photo's the other day, some very old, some not, and it was shocking to me how much I don't remember. It seems like I only remember the happy times, and even at that's in bits and pieces. Their …
Without Wings
It was my first year in public school, second grade. Even though I had learned to stand and walk without my crutches I was still taking them to school with me. I didn't use them in the classroom, kept them in the coat room. Only used them to go certain place like lunch or recess. …
Barrowed Time
Foruty-seven years ago I was a blue baby, a result of a heart defect called transposition of the great vessels. Fourty-four years ago I had a stroke which brought on cerebral palsy (CP). Fourty year ago I had open heart surgery. What was done was called the Mustard Procedure. It was named for the doctor, William …