As Gro >At 12:48 PM 7/12/1999 -0400, you wrote: >>Yeah, I was thinking of the prostate deal too, but I wasn't sure where the >>PC needle was pointing these days. >> >>Ironically, my mom and I were just laughing over the number of times I had >>to get stitches. I think it's a given for kids with CP that are (were) >>ambulatory. If you shaved my head it would look like a roadmap of Vermont, > > As Groucho would say, that is the funniest story I've ever heard, except for the getting fired part. Bob, they made me wear a football helmet. Later, my pop told my daughter and her husband and they laughed and laughed. Later my daughter's cat had a litter of kittens. One was a Tabbyy with a huge head and small body. My daughter named it "Bobby Big Head" and threatened to make a little helmet for the cat and take a picture. "Bobby" is the only one to survive out of the whole litter and is chasing and kill9ing mice in Austin. Bobby > >You guys too? I didn't know it was SOP for CP kids. After a couple of >minor surgeries to remove blood clots under my scalp, the staff at C.R.I. >made me wear a boxer's helmet for several months. > >CP 'kids" did I say? My last good one was when I was 28. Married a >month, & my bride came home for a quick break (is that PC enough?), just in >time to hear me trip over the threshhold in UT's married students' housing >& watch my head bleed on the wall. Took me to the infirmary to get me >sewn up, & was late getting back to work; after she explained what had >happened (& that I was CP), they fired her because they were afraid she'd >be off work too often!