Goodness! You impress me. Your story in that entry... it reminds me of my own. I was featured in a couple of journals and publications too. But see, there are two weeks between our births, and that really is a big difference, if you think about it. My husband's younger brother was born more than three months early, and is so badly disabled that he's in a group home and will be there for the rest of his life.
I was one of only three kids in my elementary school with cerebral palsy, and in middle school and high school, the only student with any physical disability (very small schools). I didn't learn how to walk properly until I was three, I couldn't run until I was four, and I had a severe limp and awkward gait. Lots of motor coordination problenms, etc. It was very frustrating. Now? It's a little better. I'm still learning every day. It just annoys me and sometimes brings me to tears that I suddenly have all these other ailments that are probably all because of what happened when I was born (epilepsy, fibromylagia, Raynaud's, migraine disorder, etc etc etc). My mother has an incompetent cervix; the baby born before me was four months early and died quickly. She would have never been able to carry to full term anyway. She still carries around a lot of guilt over my birth problems.
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Date: 2007-10-11 01:08 am (UTC)I was one of only three kids in my elementary school with cerebral palsy, and in middle school and high school, the only student with any physical disability (very small schools). I didn't learn how to walk properly until I was three, I couldn't run until I was four, and I had a severe limp and awkward gait. Lots of motor coordination problenms, etc. It was very frustrating.
Now? It's a little better. I'm still learning every day. It just annoys me and sometimes brings me to tears that I suddenly have all these other ailments that are probably all because of what happened when I was born (epilepsy, fibromylagia, Raynaud's, migraine disorder, etc etc etc).
My mother has an incompetent cervix; the baby born before me was four months early and died quickly. She would have never been able to carry to full term anyway. She still carries around a lot of guilt over my birth problems.