We had a visit from somebody the other day who couldn't understand
why Nora needs to be in hospital because she looks perfectly healthy.  The
next day I saw a girl, whom I guessed to be about eight years old, walking
down the hall with a basket of flowers.  As I caught up to her I commented
on how pretty they were.  When she turned to look at me, I realized she had
Down's syndrome... and then her mother interjected to say the flowers were
for Nora.  Gosh.  We barely know these people, yet they'd come from
somewhere in the suburbs because they'd heard about Nora and we'd met
through the LMDSS.  While they were there we also met in person, for the
first time, one of our BBS users who had travelled quite a long way via
public transit to see us because he'd had a similar problem at a similar
age.  He'd come to tell Nora in person that she could do a lot if she'd set
her mind to it & work at it.  That's essentially what we'd been saying,
but as a teacher I know it often means a lot more when a visiting
"expert" says the same things you've been trying to tell your
kids!  Hi & thanks, George....  :-)




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