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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Living with CP: the early years part 25.

Hello everyone.  I hope you all are having a wonderful day today.  Before I get started on today's entry I want to tell everyone why I did not have an entry last Friday. We had some threatening weather as all of those tornados passed through the Midwest and my grandma did not feel comfortable staying here so we spent the day at a local shopping center where we thought it might be safer for us since we don’t have a basement. 

Good Samaritan Hospital. Dayton, Ohio.
Today, I have two stories for everyone today, and for the first one we have to go back when I was born.  Back then, my uncle owned a boat on Lake Erie and my grandma and grandpa were vacationing on his boat.  When they were gone, my mother went into early labor and they were up on the boat with no phone.  Someone from the place the boat was docked at was called and he was able to go to the boat to tell them that my mother was in labor. Lake Erie is about 3 hours from here.  My grandma and grandpa drove as fast as they could that night to get home. 

My mother was not living with my father at this time, and she did not have enough time to let him know that she was in labor.  Instead, she called my Uncle Tom who lived next door and he took her to the hospital and he had to act like he was her husband in order for him to go in with her but the hospital finally caught on. 

A Pool.
My next story happened when I was about 11 years old.  Every year my grandma and grandpa took me on a vacation somewhere.  It was that time of year again but this time it would be a little different.  The day before we left, I went swimming with my mother and my grandpa's brother and spent all day in the pool.  As you might have guessed, I got sunburned.  That night my mother put lotion all over my body.  I could not stand anything touching my body at all! 

In my next entry you will find out what happened next.  Have a great day, everyone!  
A Bad Sunburn.


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