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Kathy Pink <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:55:17 -0700
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Kat,

I fall and rarely get hurt.  It must be a CP
thing.

Kathy Pink






--- Kathy Salkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When I was young, I had a very strange ability
> to fall gracefully and never
> hurt myself. (My mother said it was the only
> graceful thing I could do).  In
> fact, there were several times that I would
> fall with a drink in my hand and
> not spill a drop.  Very weird.  Wish I could
> still do it.
>
> Perhaps it was because it was only my right leg
> that was spastic and even
> then, rigidly spastic, not in a jerky way.
>
> Kat
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:25:55 -0700 "J.
> McCarthy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Best of Jennifer McCarthy:
> >
> > 1) As a teen, I once was walking from the
> > kitchen to
> > the living room with a full (uncovered) glass
> > of iced
> > tea.  As I crossed into the living room, I
> had
> > a full
> > body jerk/spasm in such a fashion as to throw
> > the tea
> > up into the air.  When gravity returned, the
> > ice cold
> > tea fell all over my head, face, and chest.
> My
> > brother who was sitting all comfy on the
> couch,
> > laughed his head off! :)  I was in a cold
> state
> > of
> > shock and frustration over the whole thing.
> >
> > 2) As a pre-teen, I went with my family to
> the
> > movie
> > theater to see Halloween.  At the climax of a
> > particlarly suspenseful scene, I
> jumped/spazed
> > and
> > threw a bucketfull of popcorn all over the
> > person
> > sitting on my right! :)
> >
> > 3) At one party, I asked my friend to carry a
> > piece of
> > cake for me over to the seating area.  She
> > asked if I
> > could just do it since she was busy.  My
> > response
> > (said with a smile): "Okay, you have two
> > choices...either carry this for me or watch
> me
> > throw
> > it all over the floor."  She wisely choose
> the
> > former
> > option.
> >
> > Jen
> >
> > --- "Barber, Kenneth L."  wrote:
> > > Okay you guys, since I started out the
> > morming with
> > > a joke. I think most
> > > people with cp have the most screwy senses
> of
> > humor.
> > > Tell my why you think
> > > that is. Give me one of your "best of (put
> in
> > your
> > > name here)"
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > TTYL,
> > Jennifer
> >
> >
>
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