Text 282, 46 rader
Skriven 2006-03-03 14:20:14 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
    Kommentar till text 280 av George Pope (140.survivor)
Ärende: School Daze
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Hi, George!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

GP>  She had a roommate in grade 10?  What, you had
GP>  her in private school over in Europe? ;)


          Finishing school in Switzerland -- not!  There's a classroom at Sunny
Hill staffed by Vancouver School Board, however, just as there is at Children's
Hospital.  I guess if I really wanted to brag I could describe Sunny Hill as an
exclusive boarding school, rather than as a rehab centre... [chuckle].

          Between you & James I see where I haven't made myself clear.  Keep up
the good work!  I thought you might have met a roommate Nora had at Sunny Hill.
This other girl was 14 when she had a stroke on the opposite side of the brain.
We all got along well with her & her family... maybe in part because I realized
she understood every word we said, but couldn't talk.  I'd encountered the same
problem when my father's sister had a similar stroke during the 1970's....  :-/



GP>  I was part of the Vancouver Young Adults Stroke Club
GP>  fifteen years ago, and we had members who had their
GP>  strokes in childhood (pre high school age) :(


          I hadn't heard of this organization... is it still active?  Anyway, I
know younger kids have strokes too.  There was one at Children's Hospital, when
Nora was in the neurology ward, who was 17 months old.  I understand babies can
even have them in utero.  One of the problems we often encounter is that others
believe such things happen only to elderly folks, however.  They get so hung up
on what they consider "age-appropriate" where it doesn't work for us... (sigh).



GP>  Life is so precious. . .


          Yes.  Where one door closes, another opens.  I wouldn't trade my life
or my kid for anybody else's despite the problems we've had.  And I've met some
exceptional people along the way whom I might never have met otherwise....  :-)




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)