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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