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Kathy Pink <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Wed, 15 May 2002 11:51:43 -0700
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--- Asdis Jenna Astradsdottir <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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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> >
>
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> Asdis night owl and the purring cat, Agatha
> Mist queen of our apartment!
> Gonnabe CI-user.
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> :
> Faith, Hope and Love.


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