Glenn, In intensive care in met my first boyfriend who stayed with me till I was out of rehab ... best medicine ever. I was 17 still in high school time I tried to do jumps on a dirt bike motorcycle and landed wrong dislocating C5. My parents split up while I was away for 8 months, one brother in Korea the other in Vietnam. My mother had to run the house with three teenage daughters and a newly disabled daughter. I tried just about every kind of recreational drugs out there trying to kill myself the first three years. Angry and depressed I didn't give a shit. In my fourth year, around 1978, a friend of the family was home for the summer from a nearby college. He told me about the disabled students and housing for the disabled students, this really perked up my curiosity and change my attitude 100% I went to college the best thing that ever happened to me besides needing my soulmate Pete. My claim to fame was starting the peer counseling program at Kessler Institute for rehabilitation in New Jersey. It wasn't easy to get it started, for 15 years I had to fight with the administration to convince them that a peer Counseling program was needed and necessary. Finally, the administration changed and they approved my idea. When I think back now of all the sci people and lives and families that I have touched and all the other peers counselors touched, I have to pat myself on the back. I only say this because if I was successful in killing myself or my family decided to pull the plug while I was in intensive care, how many peoples lives would not have had benefited from the peer counseling program? I'd also like to believe that I've touched Pete's life in our 31 years together and my nieces and nephews as well. The ripple effect is beyond my comprehension. Bobbie
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