Are AFO's braces?




--- Chester Worwa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I one time showed someone a picture of pictures
> on
> AFO's, but nobody here in Buffalo, New York
> knows how
> they did it.
>
> --- Jennifer Zubko <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > Here is a little note as to why I chose
> butterflies
> > on my new braces. The
> > very first poem I ever wrote (in a tattered
> grade 9
> > journal that I still
> > have at home somewhere), was about a little
> boy who
> > finds a butterfly with a
> > broken wing in his yard while playing one
> day. He
> > picks up this frightened,
> > delicate creature, whose one uninjured wing
> is
> > beating frantically against
> > his palm and takes it home, nursing it to
> health
> > with ointment and time. He
> > then lets the well butterfuly fly free again.
> I
> > wrote the poem as a tribute
> > to an English teacher whom I loved, who was,
> at the
> > time, the onlyone NOT to
> > see my disability (or injured wing, if you
> will),
> > before my intellect. When
> > my family had a very old computer, I used to
> have it
> > saved, but it is gone
> > now.... And these days I would dedicate it
> all to
> > you, because you have
> > rescued me so many times, helped me to grow,
> believe
> > in myself, let me be
> > free to be myself....So thats why I chose
> > butterflies on my new braces.  If
> > you want, when I  am trying to rest in
> between
> > assignments, I could try to
> > reproduce it. I see that little boy in each
> one of
> > you... And myself as the
> > butterfly, one of God's creatures who needs
> help. So
> > thats why I chose
> > butterflies on my AFOS... They grow and
> change, are
> > fragile and strong-- yet
> > sometimes need help. So its more a symbolic
> reason
> > than any fashion sense,
> > though I love the purple. I could try and
> reproduce
> > the poem if anyone
> > wished. (Collett as you are my Canadian
> poetry
> > teacher, I am sure you would
> > love it if I could, though I am sorry my
> papers are
> > not done. I have not had
> > my electric wheelchair for over a week, so
> can't
> > leave my room, and the only
> > place the Attendants go is in Residence. I
> can't
> > even go to a doctor's appt.
> > on campus today), or the library. I am going
> to ask
> > my GP to write a note
> > for extensions re: papers  I have left to
> write.
> > Stress does not allow my
> > best work, and increases my pain.
> > So that's the story of my butterrflies, and I
> thank
> > you all for being that
> > little boy in my life rescuing me, taking
> care of
> > me, and letting me fly
> > free and be myself.
> > Love,
> > Jenn
> >
> > -now do you think its juvenile to put
> butterflies on
> > my braces, knowing the
> > significance-- even though the majority of
> responses
> > have been to do
> > whatever I want?
>
>
>
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