Kathy and others,

I too see no problem with hoping for a cure and saying prayers in your own
way whatever that might be.  Its your own life, you can do whatever you want
and feel a need to do, as long as it doesn't effect others in a wrong way.
Kathy, I know that you're smart and I feel if you would like to have a cure
some day, you should start looking into what could be done and get grants
and money yourself to begin something.  I don't see anything stopping us
from doing something like that because its how everything we have today got
started actually.  Ford thought we should have cars to drive and get around
in, so he started thinking about what he could build and he developed the
car.  I'm saying we could do the same even if we have cerebral palsy.

Thanks,
Anthony
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Rayna Lamb
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:51 AM
  Subject: Re: Having CP in Public (was: Today)


  On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0600, kjpink wrote:
       I will been praying ever since for a cure for Cerebral Palsy
      (twice a day).  And , maybe , that's wrong of me to do that.

  No, Kathy, its not wrong of you to do that.  It's human.  I'll gladly
  go on record as saying I have done the same thing at times in my
  life.  What is so very very wrong, and almost unforgivable is for the
  world to make us think that we are any the less human and deserving of
  love, respect and dignity (and appropriate assistance to live our
  lives to the fullest) because of our disabilities.  Unfortunately,
  even if the world becomes 100% accepting and accomodating of us, our
  CP will always prevent us from doing some things physically that we may
  dearly wish to do (I would have loved to have been a dancer) and the
  physical pain and fatigue associated with CP may never really go away.
  So I think no matter how strong we are, most, if not all of us would
  probably deep down wish and pray for a cure.

  With Love

  Rayna