I don't want to totally side for the doctors here, but however I sometimes
feel that they feel that the child's parents are expecting them to know
something, so they end up saying something either right or wrong. It's like
forcing the doctor to gamble, when they don't know what the odds are for
sure, but they know they have parents wanting some answers or they're going
to look for another doctor to take their child to, if they don't receive
some answers.
Thanks,
Anthony
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----- Original Message -----
From: Asdis Jenna Astradsdottir
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: CP (Part II)
yes I fooled doctor by going to grammar school and now sign language
studies and then to teaching school! Yeah, we cpers are too smart for the
world!!!! Asdis.
At 17:37 4.5.2002 -0700, Kathy Pink wrote:
>I agree with Kat. The doctor thought I would be
>a vegetable so he advised my parents to put me in
>an institution.
>
>
>
>
>
>--- Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
> > I think all of us beat our doctors'
> > expectations. I know my doctor didn't expect me
> > to live, much less learn anything or go to
> > school. My mother's voice would rise with
> > indignation every time she told me he would
> > tell her I would end up in an insitution, not
> > able to care for myself or feed myself. Well,
> > turns out all my CP is all in my legs and I am
> > on my own, and have 2 college degrees, etc. I
> > just wish he were still alive so I could tell
> > him how well my life turned out but he died
> > when I was still a child. Living well is the
> > best revenge, as they say.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:10:12 -0700 jd
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > --- "BG Greer, PhD" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > . When a new born is sus=
> > > pected of having cerebral palsy, physicians
> > will
> > > often paint a "worse c=
> > > ase scenario" for the traumatized parents by
> > > telling them their newborn=
> > > "bundle of joy" most likely will not be
> > > able to walk, to talk, wi=
> > > ll be retarded, blind or deaf or both. This
> > way the
> > > physician's ass is=20=
> > > covered. And that is what happened to my
> > parents
> > > when I was born.
> >
> >
> > This was interesting timing Bobby. This morning
> > Alex
> > asked me the question I really didn't want to
> > answer...Mom why can't I walk. I told him he
> > was born
> > to soon and too little and was very sick when
> > he was
> > born and has a boo boo on his brain that causes
> > him to
> > have trouble walking. I told him the doctors
> > told me
> > he wouldn't be able to walk, talk, eat or think
> > by
> > himself. This kid who uses a walker, braces,
> > has low
> > vision and has had a feeding tube for almost
> > 1/2 his
> > life etc., etc., looked me straight in the eye
> > and
> > said
> > "I sure fooled the doctors, haven't I Mom?"
> > Joanne
> >
> >
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