Well said, Bobbie. As the song goes, "That's a life you can hang your hat on!" May God continue to bless you and Sweet Pete. Stay great! Larry W.
Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [email protected] > From: Gmail <[email protected]> > Date: November 11, 2013 at 9:49:23 PM EST > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "<[email protected]>" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [QUAD-L] My Story > > > 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 > > Smile Everyday >
