Hi Mag,

I think 'ignorant' is a good thing to call him - he was just an old country
doctor, mom did not go to any special obgyn as most pregnant women would today.
Not only did he not know what was wrong (outside of a 'cyst'), he didn't send me
to UVa hospital right away either.  Back then, when a woman had a baby, the
mother and baby stayed about a week, and it was after that week stay at the
hospital I was born in, that it was decided to send me over.  But back then, UVa
didn't really have much of a clue either, what to do - and refused to operate on
my spine until I was "over 6 months" in age.  For the first 6 months, I laid on
my tummy, could not roll over, for fear of breaking open the pocket of fluid
that was built up there.  NOW when a spina bifida is born - they generally
operate the same day of birth or the day after, to "close" the spine, and remove
the pocket, etc........

I do talk ok, just when I have to talk a lot do I get kinda bad about not being
able to put my thoughts together, and that's probably not cp related, maybe.
For 11 years, I was a switchboard operator - so I spent 8 hrs a day talking on
the phone, and paging over an intercom...........

See ya
Beth

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