Girl Sees Her Face for the First Time

[charlotte49er]

When I was laying in rehab trying to see if I'd ever walk again.

I had this dream that I woke up and the doctors had cut off my legs and replaced with with Bionic ones! They were just closing up the legs.

I remember waking up screaming, "You Bastards cut off my legs!" Then it dawned on me, Wait! I can run 60 mph, jump over fences! How cool is that! Go ahead guys! Close them up and let me take them for a spin about the city!

THEN, I woke up! :cryin:

[boo7382]

On The Chive today....pretty amazing

[g5jamz]

Love technology.

[Mayor Qumiby]

Love technology.

Yeaaa man its awesome what's being developed now to help people out.. hard to believe the steps we've taken in the past 50.. hell, past 25 years.

[pstall]

that was excellent. love seeing people get helped

[LifeisaGarden]

My 1st cousin had a cleft lip and palate, she inherited it from her dad. She had a son who was born with it too, she had 2 other kids not born with it. The difference in the technology from when she had her surgeries vs her sons surgeries is astronomical. He almost looks like he never had a cleft lip & palate.

Thanks for posting the video, it was great.

[charlotte49er]

I think with the deaf community they look down on it if you are like old enough to understand. But I dont know how they can look down on it when it can help a toddler.

I kind of understand that.

As a paraplegic, there's a certain amount of accomplishment when you do something for yourself that a normal walking person takes for granted. I have only been a paraplegic for 6 years and sometimes I will make fun of people who can walk. (There are times that I make fun of myself for not walking, too.)

People fall into 3 categories. 1) People who seem to think/assume that you can't do anything. (About 30-35%) 2) People who ask you if you need help first. (10% - 15%.) 3) Poeple who look at you like they are afraid to touch you or look at you, because whatever you have, they'll get! (About 50%+)

You can tell just by the look on their face. I want to say to them sometimes, "Look I don't have AIDS, I'm in a chair due to an on the job accident."

With me, it isn't that I feel superior, sometimes far from it. But I feel special. I'm doing thinks with my life, that I may have never done otherwise. I have accepted being in the "chair". In many ways, I'm a better person now, then when I could walk.

I'm far more aware of people and not so quick to dismiss them. I spent the first 6 months to a year. Looking bck on my life. Seeing why past relationships failed. What I could have done differently, or just better. And I worked on changing "me". (I don't want to quote the Michael Jackson song here.)

Someone on another msg board called me a "slacker". He said, that I could work if I really wanted to. I'm busier now then when I worked for pay. I am involved with my organization and would never had the time to do this if I worked a 40+ hour week.

My life is a Mulligan. (Golfing term, for those of you who play golf.) I got a "Do Over". Now I have to make the most of that "Do Over". One thing that hit me was Jimmy Valvano's saying. "Don't get up! Don't ever give up!" I added to that. "I refuse to be defined by 4 wheels!"

Sorry to ramble. And sorry that it reads like I'm blowing my own horn too.

[pstall]

well said sports talk.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

I'm glad this sort of technology works wonders for people. I had tubes in my ears for a long time when I was young, but I can hear perfectly out of one ear, and pretty alright out of the other.

So good that this kind of stuff exists.