Hello everyone, July 10, 1966 was one of those hot days in Pennsylvania. I believe the record high temperature for 1966, was July 3 of 107°. That week we had many severe storms and to cool off I had plans to accompany my Sunday school teacher in the Susquehanna River. Upon asking permission from my mother she made the statement "I don't trust the river with all the storms, so I will take you someplace safe", a statement I'm sure she relived in her mind many times. That afternoon I went to a public pool and while swimming someone apparently did a cannonball on my back. Luckily someone saw me and calls went out to the lifeguard, who just happened to have gone home and ask his girlfriend to sit on the tower. It really didn't matter, for as it turned out he was not certified. I spent the next 2 1/2 years in the Etown Crippled Childrens Hospital, nine of those months in isolation due to infections from pressure sores. There wasn't such a thing as sci rehab at that time. Well, here I am 48 years later, the last two years being the roughest, but as they say "I am still hanging in there", but the rope gets short at times. Just like the rest of us, I don't know if I will make it to 49, things are going on inside my body, but the doctors just don't know what. I've had a full life, certainly glad that I did not wait around for a cure. With my "anything for a buck" mentality I took a correspondence class in electronics, received an associate degree, started a business, built a building for that business and am now retired. Gee, my counselor from vocational rehabilitation said I could never work on electronics with hands that didn't function. After I was two thirds through the course, the next counselor realized I was serious and the state of Pennsylvania picked up the rest of the tab. Now, I am trying to study web site design, but learning something new doesn't come easy at 63. The almost completed web site for anyone from Pennsylvania that may have spent time at the Elizabethtown State Hospital for crippled children is: http://www.elizabethtowncrippledchildrenshospital.com/ I don't know how many years I will be around to keep up the site, but I thank the quad site for all the help you have been over the years. My prayer is that God touches all of you in a very special way this year. I have to be able to make a post on July 10, 2015. OK, now "Get er Done"
Glenn Henry
