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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