Hi my name is George A Russo and this is my story When I was first born I had no problem I was a healthy baby boy. My parents said A year later when I was one year old I could walk and I could run. One day when I were little I saw my aunty Josie putting her keys in the trunk of her car at Lake Pearl. So when she had left I had run up to her car and took her keys and ran. I ran and ran and no one could catch me. A few years later When I was two and a half years old I was Outside and I went to play in my next door neighbors yard in Tewksbury where I lived with my family. A guy that was hurrying to his house to feed his eight kids didnt see me and accidentally drove in to me with his car. Then I was thrown into an oak tree. The car had hit the left side of my brain, which made the right side of my body partly paralyzed! I remained in a coma for two months. I spent three months at Saint Johns Hospital with multiple surgeries caused by multiple fractures. The doctors said to my parents that they do not have to waste their money on me because I was going to die. But my parents took me home anyways.

The next day I had saw something funny. Our babysitter was bouncing a ball off of my brother Joe Russos head. I thought that it was very funny so I started to laugh. Then my mother, Denise Russo had just looked at my father Armando George Russo and she said "I wonder what he is laughing at?" Then she saw the baby sitter that was bouncing a ball off of my brothers head. So my mother called the doctor and she told the doctor what she saw me do. Then the doctor didnt believe her.

Later, when my sister Maria Russo crawled, I crawled. I had to relearn everything all over again. I had to relearn how to dress myself, I had to relearn how to feed myself, I had to relearn how to bath and brush my teeth by myself, I had to relearn how to do everything myself.

A year later we all had moved in to a house on thirty-eight Dexter Street, Medford Massachusetts with our dog we had named Tangier. We had bought a house right in front of another familys house that we became very good friends with as the years went on. Weeks later my dog had about nine or ten puppies and for a disable little kid that could pull him self on the ground with one good strong arm and push with one strong leg on the ground the puppies were all over me and I could not get them off of me either.

As I had gotten older we had bought another house that was in Bart Let, New Hampshire in the mountain area so that we could go up on the weekends only. Up in our house in New Hampshire I would do plenty of walking by holding on to my four-prong cane with my strong left hand. Of course I use to have a big bright blue wheelchair that I would use to lean on while I were walking and then I would push my big blue wheelchair in the parking lot in the summer time at our house in New Hampshire I had a great big yard up there and a big wide parking lot too, where all of the cars and trucks parked. And the parking lot was right next to my familys yard and mine. But when there were no cars and trucks in the parking lot I would hold on to my four-prong cane with my very strong left hand of coarse and I would walk in the big wide parking lot. Some times when it was hot up in New Hampshire, my brother my sister, our mother, and me would go swimming at a beach called the Saco River. But first me, my brother, and my sister both would put on our bathing suits at the house. Then we would get in the car and then our mother would drive us to the beach. It was fun at that beach and the water was very cool and refreshing to swim in too. When we went to the Saco River to go swimming, my mother would always make me wear a life vest. So that my head could stay above the water so that I could breathe the cool oxygen that was in the air. In some areas the Saco river it was so deep and because you are dealing with a very, very, strong current where all of the water is flowing down the stream and off of all the little rocks too it is very dangerous. If youre struggling to continue to keep swimming because of the current then you got to deal with the rapids too that flow down from the bigger rocks. And with a guy that could only swim with one good strong arm I could still sink and drown accidentally. So that is the reason why I had to swim with a life vest around my neck and that straps around my waste too. There is a big giant bridge that a train crosses and I would see some people jumping off of the bridge and some people would even go to the tip top of the bridge and jump down to the water below. I mean they were just taking a great big risk of getting seriously injured. Plus, there were a lot of great big giant rocks to hit their heads really, really, hard on and that is true. I would wonder what were they thinking when they had jumped off of the bridge. Or did they think at all the dangers that would await them on the way down It is like saying "hey mom and dad look no hands." People that do those stunts should say "hey look mom and dad look no brains either." On Sunday we would have our car all packed up and then we all would sit in the seats with our father and our mother would drive us to our house in Medford.

Before I went to the Cotting school I went to a place called Dimic Street in the year of nineteen-seventy-five. At Dimic Street I played games with the other little kids there and played with blocks too. Some days when my van driver would drive me to Dimic street I would make a puppet or just sit on a chair and then I would paint on a very wide big blank paper but I could not paint as well as I could do now. Back then it was like abstract painting. Some days I would walk up a lot of steps holding on to a very long wooden bar and then I would slide down a great big slide that they had at the building on Dimic Street. When a van picked me up at Dimic Street I went to therapy at Youville hospital. There they did some exercises on me and did some hand stretches on me too. A minute later a different driver would drive me home to my house on thirty-eight Dexter street in Medford and the driver would drive right past a restaurant with a big Jack-in-the-box attach to this gigantic long pole on the right side of the restaurant. I went to Dimic street for a few years then I had went to a building called the Cotting school on Saint but all street. After school at a building in Boston called the Cotting School I went through a lot of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy too every day. I even had to go through a lot of very painful operations. Like, I had an operation done on both of my heels because I was practically standing on my ankles. The doctors made it so that I could stand flat-footed. I also had my knees operated on because I was standing with them bent and I couldnt straighten them out. I had them operated on so that I could stand straighter. I also had to stay in the hospital at New England medical center for a few weeks after I had my operations. I had to wear two big long casts on my legs for a month. And while I was in the two straight leg casts I had to go and do every thing in my wheelchair while I sat on a straight long board and I even had to sleep down stairs. Because my parents could not bring me up stairs with two long leg casts on my legs it were impossible. But a few weeks later when I did have the long leg cast taking off of my legs by doctor Simpler then I could walk up the stairs and I would sleep in my own bed. But I had to still sleep in two long night cast except they was the kind with straps with buckles on them so my mother could buckle my cast that was on my legs every night and unbuckle my leg casts every morning when I woke up from bed. In physical therapy at New England medical center they did some exercises on my legs. They would make me walk around with a four-prong cane. I even did some exercises thirty times on each leg with weights strapped to them every night when I was at my house.

I went to a camp in the summer of nineteen seventy-six called Camp Warren I stayed in a cabin for four weeks with six or seven other boys and some were in wheelchairs including me. A great big yellow tent was also right next to the boys cabin. The girls cabin was a little ways down the road from the boys cabin. At that camp some of the campers and their counselors including my counselor and me all shot bows and arrows at the targets. Later everybody at Camp Warren walked up a great big hill to go to eat lunch. After lunch a guy named Frank Robinson got up in the middle of the kitchen to announce the activities for that day. I would sneak behind him and I was being funny and everybody was laughing too. One day at Camp Warren I got in a big box and my counselor name Gil helped me get inside it and he put a pile of clothe on me. So just for a laugh my counselor and a female counselor named Paula would push me in the box up near Frank Robinson. Then he would open the box and I would pop out saying "surprise." Then he would laugh because it would be so funny. After all of the campers and their counselors including my counselor and me finished with dinner we would all walk down the great big hill to our own cabins. Some days everybody there at Camp Warren would play games on the big lawn there. Some campers and their counselors including my counselor and me would get in a van and ride through some woods to go swimming. Some days at a beach there the swimming was cool and refreshing. Back at camp I would lean on my wheelchair and push it up the great big hill at camp to some of my meals. Then back down the great big hill. Everybody at Camp Warren would go to different activities. One time everybody at camp had an arm wrestling match including me and my counselor in the kitchen. One other time all of the kids at Camp Warren stood out side in a row of ten including me and then all of the girls would chase all of the boys including me for a dance which was the next day up in the dining room. But when the game had stopped I was the only one that was not tagged yet. So as I was walking by hanging on the back of my wheelchair and going back to the line that was out side I was tagged by a beautiful girl. So I got to dance with her the next day. I went to camp there for one more summer.

When I was in the first grade at the Cotting School everyday me and my classmates would have free time. Some kids would go and visits the second grade class and do other stuff like that including me. Some days I would listen to a record or play a game on the computer. A half of an hour later and then we had to do some schoolwork. My classmates and me teacher was Miss Loid. Later every body in my class went to gym including me. Every day in gym we all would play a different game using a ball like kick ball or dodge ball and other games like that. Up stairs in art class the art teacher named Mister Melzack would make different projects with my classmates and me. I would usually like to paint or work with clay or glue wood together. Later all of the kids in my class including me would go back to our class to do some more schoolwork like some would read and others would do math. An hour had past so every body in the school including my classmates and me went down stairs to eat our lunches. I would go down stairs in the elevator with the other kids that were in wheelchairs and walkers and even crutches too. Later every body in the school including me would go home. Some days at my house on Dexter Street I would walk to the back yard to swing on the swings and I would slide down the slide too. One hot day me and my classmates and our teacher and the music teacher named misses McCarthy would all pack up a big long bus and then we all would ride to the Franklin Park Zoo. When we all were at the zoo we would see lions, tigers, monkeys, baboons, deer, and other animals. We all would eat our lunches there too. Then we all loaded on the big bus to go back to school. When we all had arrived at school everybody in school would go back to their own houses including me.

One weekend my family and me walked out side to get in the car and our mother drove to Dennis, David, and Ilenes house to have a cookout and of coarse I brought my four-prong cane with me to do some walking. they and their parents had a great big yard at their house When my family and I got to their house there were a lot of people theyre talking to each other. My parents were talking to Davit, Dennis, and Ilene parents and there was good food to eat too.

For a few weekends David, Dennis, and Ilene and their parents came up to our house in New Hampshire. In the summer of nineteen seventy-seven I went to a day camp with my brother and sister and even my mother. We would go at one oclock in the afternoon. There we would paint, work with clay, or just work with wood. Later we would ride back to our house at three oclock. One day I even made some cookies with my female counselor. One day at the camp, me, my brother, and sister made three individual little flower pots out of a shape of a little wooden paddle; one for each one of us. Some days some young ladies name Tracy, Marian, and their sister name Windy, use to come over to our house and Windy use to play different things with me, my brother and sister too. Tracy and Marian would talk with my mother and father and some times would join us.

In second grade one day I was riding in a car with a kid name Cory and we would play hide and go seek. So I would hide his glasses on him but I would forget to give them back to him. Later the driver dropped me off at you Ville hospital for therapy and my therapist was wondering where I got the glasses. I would tell my therapist that I was holding them for somebody. But the next day I went back to school and my teacher spoke me to. One other day at lunchtime, in the dining room, all of the kids in there were eating their food including me. Later we all had chocolate mouse for desert and a kid name David had his bowl right up at my face. So I thought that he was going to throw his chocolate mouse in my face. Instead I threw mine in his face. We got in really big trouble upstairs by our teacher. We thought that we were going to get kicked out of the school but we didnt. Some days me, my brother, my sister, and our mother all would go over a family called the Roderick's house and meet with Jeanie Roderick, Charlie Roderick, Linda Roderick, Laura Roderick, Kenny Roderick, Michael Roderick and Tommy Roderick. So when me, my brother, sister, and our parents stopped at their house we would talk for a bit and sometime me and my sister would play upstairs with Laura in her room. Some days the Rodericks would come over to my familys house and. In the summer time some days when it was hot out, me, my brother, my sister, and our mother would get in our car and my mother would drive us kids to Jeanie Roderick house to go swimming in their big pool that they had in the back yard. So when I got out of the car I had to hold on to my four-prong cane and walk to her back yard.

But I didnt mind the walk at all. Of coarse, I had my bathing suit on too when I got to her great big swimming pool. I had to grab a long wooden railing and then walk up about four or five steps. Then my mother would put on my life vest so that I could swim.

At my house I had to wear night casts on my legs every night when I was sleeping. So my mother would have to go into my room to put my night casts on my legs. In occupational therapy they would try to straighten my wrist on my right arm. They made me an arm splint too. So every day when I rode to school on a van I would put on my arm brace and my mother or father would help me. In speech therapy they taught me how to say my words clearly.

When we would go up to mine and my family house in New Hampshire we all would stop off at my aunty Paulas and uncle Rays house to see my cousin Ray, my cousin Eddie, my cousin Kathy, and my cousin Irene. They have a really, really, big yard that I could walk around in and they had so many dogs. When my family and me would stop to meet them we would put our dog in their big kennel with their dogs but they would keep some dogs in doghouses in their back yard too. They would go out to feed all of the dogs all of the time too.

When my family and me left to go up to our house in Bart Let, New Hampshire we would take our dog with us. On Saturday some times I would choose to go to church. I would meet Betty and Bob, Jim and Pat, Al and Maureen and other people that we knew after church. A few times we would ride to Story Land with our parents. We would see Hump de dump de that sat on a wall and we went in to the three bears house and saw Goldie Locks that was sleeping in one of the beds that was upstairs and we saw the old lady that lived in a shoe. We went on a few rides there and we even ate there too. We all had a great time at Story Land then we went home. One time on the way home to mine and my family house in Medford my mother saw a turtle on the road. So my mother had got out of the car to bring the sun turtle in the car. So when she had brought the sun turtle into the car we called it Sonny. And one other Saturday as we were going up to New Hampshire my mother got a bigger sun turtle that was crossing the road and we called that one Share. So my family and me had kept them as a pet. Sonny and Share the two sun turtles swam in a great big fish tank with a quart of water and ate grasshoppers too. But when me and my family spent the summer up in New Hampshire sonny and Share would swim in the big sink that were on the porch. Some weekends on our way home my family and me would stop at my Uncle Brads house to visit his wife and his kids too. They had a big yard and a great big deep lake that I would swim in some times.

Up in New Hampshire, in the middle of every November, for one day of that month a crowd of people would gather at a mountain called Attitash mountain because there was going to be a big battle between the god of winter and the god of summer with two big long logs. It was very snowy one time so my mother had got my snowsuit on and then she walked with me outside so that I could sit in the dog sled. Then my parents made our dog pull me across the street and the icy ground to watch the battle but it was all an act thank God. Later when my mother had pushed me back to our yard that was across the street I had played in the snow while my brother, my sister, and our father and mother went skiing back on the mountain. Every winter they went skiing in New Hampshire while I played in the snow in my yard or I would stay in the house and watch some TV. I would even do all of my exercises with weights strapped to my legs too because I could not ski with one good hand and one good leg. If I did ski I could accidentally hit my head hard on the icy ground and risk another head-injury or worst. But some weekends I would go sledding on the snowy ground. On Sunday we would have our car all packed up with our suitcases to go back to Medford. One time our parents stopped off at a restaurant for a minute called the Scarecrow while me, my brother and sister waited in the car. While we waited a cop walked behind a guy with handcuffs around his hands and I saw them from the car. It was the kid that baby-sat us for our parents and he was a robber. But our parents did not know it at first. Well as the saying goes crime does not pay.

All of the time on Thanksgiving Day my mother would cook in the kitchen in our house. Some of our aunts, uncles, and cousins would come over to the house to eat Thanksgiving dinner with me, my brother, my sister and our mother and father. We would have a big Thanksgiving dinner with slices of ham, baloney, salami, beef, olives, cheese, Then we would eat raviolis, and spaghetti, Then comes the turkey, the stuffing, mash potatoes and the squash. And then all of the pies too like apple pie, squash pie, lemon pie, and other goodies.

When my driver drove me to my house from school all I did was sit in the house and watch TV. Some days I would just sit outside because that were all that I could do except walk around the yard holding on to my four prong cane or sit on the big long red bench at the big long cement table in my back yard while my brother and sister played with their friends across the street. A few times their friends would come to the house to talk to me including two sisters named Mary and her young sister Barbara. Sometimes two sisters name Rene and Miss Shell would come too. One time my brother was playing baseball with some kids on his baseball team in a great big yard that was right next to his and my sisters school. So I was in the house watching TV and my mother said "George do you want to go watch your brother play ball." So I said "ok" so me and my mother walked out to the car to get in the car. Then we went to see my brother play baseball and of coarse I had took my four prong cane to do some walking.

When I went to school I used my manual wheelchair to wheel myself into school. When all of the kids got in the school including me we would have to wait in the gym for a half of an hour every day until classes were ready. Then when I got into my class I would park my wheelchair and use my four prong cane in school except in gym because my gym teacher wanted me to use my wheelchair whenever me and my class mates went to gym and I would wheel my wheelchair with my strong left hand. In a summer of the nineteen eighties my mother drove me up to Gilmanton Iron Works in New Hampshire to go to a camp that is called camp Fatima. At that camp I would have a counselor and my counselor would stay with me every day and we would sleep in a cabin every night with six or seven other campers and their counselors too. Most of the campers at camp were in manual wheelchairs including me. Some used electric wheelchairs and needed a lot of help too. Some campers was able bodied too but retarded or had down syndrome. At that camp me and my counselor and the other campers and their counselors would have to go to mass every day. We all would have mass in a different area outside with all of the priest and bishops too. There would be all of the campers and counselors including me and my counselor singing and praying on the lawn. There of coarse would be activities too like my favorite, arts and crafts I did some paintings there almost every day with some of the other campers and counselors at the camp. At that camp they had a big very long lawn and my counselor would let me do some walking by holding on to my four prong cane with my strong left hand some days while I was there. When it was hot out everybody at camp

I would go swimming in the river there and some would lay out on the sandy beach or go for a motor boat ride. I went swimming at camp most days and sometimes I would even go for a motor boat ride. A few times I would go for a horse back ride. One day there would even be a ice cream social. Where all of the campers and their counselors would put any toppings that they wanted on their ice cream whether it was butter scotch sauce, strawberry sauce, chocolate sauce, jimmies, and whip cream. There would be a theme at the camp for the week too. Like when I was first there the theme would be Mary pop pens and they would have that played all week that I was there. A few days later all of the campers including me rode to our houses with our parents. Up in New Hampshire every month on the labor day week end there would be a great big labor day cook out back in our yard where all of my family friends would come they would even have big barbeque pit in our back yard where my parents would cook the side of beef and we would have other food there too. Every body at the cook out had a great time including me. Some times I would even like walking in the woods that was in our back yard In the fifth grade class I would be walking with my cane from my class to the six grade class for math. In one of my classes I had a social study group with my teacher and my class mates. Sometimes I would have to take the big heavy social study book to my house and read a few pages and answer the question too it was very, very hard for me to answer some question so my mother would help me and Barbara from next door or my sister Maria would offer to help me too. Some days when it was really hot out side me and my classmates would play games out side of the school with our gym teacher and a few times we would even climb on the monkey bars out back. But when I wanted to climb on the monkey bars I would get in trouble. One day I was in a play with a kid name Tommy, he were pushing me in my wheelchair and there was a great big dark green blanket that was covering Tommys body but just my head would stick out of the blanket and I wore a big long green baseball hat on my head too. A kid that was in the play too sang the dinosaur was big the dinosaur was mean he roared and roared and roared that I had ever heard. Then when it came time for me to roar Tommy had pushed me up to a microphone and then I would let out this big loud roar then all of the people were clapping for me. A day that was in December me and my family would go to a place called post nineteen for a Christmas party. Because my father worked there every year to help the other guys there hand out Christmas presents to all of the good little boys and girls including me, my brother, and our sister. Most of the little boys and girls would have their chances to go up to the microphone and to sing a Christmas song. Later Santa claws would come out to give all of the presents to all of the good little boys and girls including me, my brother, and our sister. A hour later every body there went to their own houses. Including me and my family. A few hours later my mother had to cook some food to bring to the family Christmas party which was over one of my aunts house. So at my house I was watching TV a few minutes while my mom made the food. A hour later me, my brother, my sister and our mother walked out side to get in the car then our mother drove us to our aunt house I had took my four prong cane with me to do some walking our father would come in to the Christmas party later. All of our aunts, uncles and cousins were there and they had brought good food too. All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, including me and my family had a great time and we had good food too. Everybody there was talking to each other and eating too. Then later these three clowns came out name Will, Tilley, and Billy jumping up and down throwing money all over the floor. So everybody including me, my brother, and our sister got a paper cup and picked up all of the money that was all over the floor to keep. Later Santa claws came out to give all of the presents to all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins including me and my family. A minute had past until all of our aunts uncles and cousins went back to their own houses including me and my family too. On one Easter morning I woke up at seven oclock and I had saw three bunny rabbits down stairs in a big long tank a black on, a white one, and a brown one I had the brown one and I had named him commit and my sister had the white rabbit and she had called her rabbit snow white and my brother had the black one that he had called mid night we would feed them carrots and celery sticks but later on in the month they were killed. In the summer of nineteen eighty-two I went to a camp up in Maine. So my mother drove me to the bus station to catch a bus so that I could go to this camp that was in Maine called camp Agony village. There was a whole lot of other people seated on the great big long bus that went to the camp too. So I had slept a bit on the bus. Four hours later every body that was on the bus was at camp including me. So every bodies luggage's including mine was took off of the big long bus and brought in to our cabins I stayed in a great big brick building with some of the other campers and their counselors. But when I had went to years later I slept in a cabin which was in the back of the recreation hall. Then I would go in back of the recreation hall and then I would wheel my wheelchair over this short wooden bridge that were about ten or eleven feet off of the ground or more and the counselors would let disable kids in their wheelchairs wheel themselves over this little bridge that was not safe at all and they had no railings built on to the bridge either. At that camp every day when it was hot out all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor would have to go down a giant big hill to go swimming and some would go boating too. Later everybody including me would go back to our cabins from boating and swimming we all had to go back up the great big giant hill and because some kids including me were in manual wheelchairs some able boded kids pushed us up. When we were all dress all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor went up to the dining room to eat. So most days I would have to use my wheelchair. Because it was a long ways for me to walk and sometimes it would get late too. But a few days they would let me walk to my meals holding on to my four prong cane. All of the campers and the counselors including me and my counselor would have different activities. Like some people would go on a nature walk, other people would go to art and crafts and some people would even go rope climbing. A lot of handicap kids in manual wheelchairs would get seriously hurt from going up the great big giant hill and going down too including me. There were a door that lead to the down stairs basement. Where one night at that camp everybody had a big dance including me and my counselor too. One day at that camp all of the kids went down the great big hill including me to watch our counselors playing basketball in the water. But all of the campers was watching on a short cliff and all of the kids that was in manual wheelchairs including me and electric wheelchairs were all up front and all of the able boded kids sat in back on a very big long log that was on the ground. So we all saw our counselors playing basket ball down in the water. A few minutes later a little kid manual wheelchair rolled over the edge of the short cliff with the little kid still sitting in his wheelchair too. At that moment the little kid hit the ground really, really, hard that all of the counselors wanted every bodies towels to wipe up the little kid blood and that kid was bleeding really bad. A week later every body would go to their own house including me. So every body at camp luggages were all packed up and loaded on the big long bus and all of the people including me was seated on the bus too. Then the driver of the big long bus drove up to the bus station so all of the kids could go to their houses with their parents including me too. when I had got off of the great big long bus my mother had said George where is all of your towels? And I had said that they had needed all of the towels to wipe up the blood. Later my mother was upset at the counselors for how they could let this happen in the first place and that camp was poorly run too. One some weekends me and my family would have some families spend the weekend with us up in our house in New Hampshire called the Leonards, the Sweeny's, and the Davidsons they were very nice people and kind too. They would help me and my parents out some times. When it was very, very, hot up in New Hampshire me, my brother, our sister, a kid name Michael Leonard, Jimmy Leonard and Steven Davidson and Christ Davidson would all go to the Saco River to go swimming. Of coarse I would have brought my four prong cane to walk on the sand and I had to wear my life vest before I could go swimming in the water. At the Saco River we had all gotten out of a guy name Bob Leonard yellow jeep and then we would walk down to the water. One day when I was swimming at the Saco River I had saw three guys jumping off the top of the bridge and in to the water, But one guy had hit his leg very, very, hard on one of the great big rocks that lead to the big long bridge. Later I had lifted my head up from the cool water and I had saw a lot of people around a guy that was laying down on a great big rock and in so much pain too. Later some guys had brought him to the hospital in their ambulance on a stretcher too. I would think that the people that jump off of bridges dont have any common cents at all or they are just waiting to get a head-injury and being disabled for life or even dead. The best thing I think is to dont jump of off bridges period. In Medford when I went back to the Cotting school I were in the seventh grade and I had a teacher that wasnt really nice to me because she would give me some very easy school work and she had gave the rest of my class some harder school work to do and that really was not right at all. A week later it was Thursday and on every Thursday me and every body in my class room went up stairs to another room called graphics art and in that room we had to take out some letter from a draw that were on these little blocks and then after we had a word that was all spelled out we would have the teacher in that class put some black ink on the rolling pin that was attatch to the printing press. Then when the male teacher in that class had the black ink on the rolling pin he would then roll the rolling pin on the printing press one time and then he would attatch a short square card board paper to the rolling pin then I would have to roll mine on the ink to spell a sentence. Each student that was in my class had a turn. I would walk to every class except for gym because I still had to use my wheelchair in order to play any games. But on every Friday at one oclock I would choose to go to a event that was down stairs in the big gym that was called the boys scouts that the gym teacher there was in charge of. Of course at that time I had to take the elevator down in my wheelchair. In the great big gym all of the students that was in the seventh grade through the twelve grade including me had to stand in four lines o six kids in a line including me. Then every body would play a game using a ball of course. At three oclock on every Friday too there were a basket ball game at three oclock until nine oclock which I would choose to stay at the school for with the higher classes. In my school for the basket ball game I would choose to walk with my four prong cane. The people let me walk up and down the school hall way and to the big gym and to the little gym where they had a big piano two big large pool tables and a long ping pong table too. Every Friday for the game a female teacher would put a great big counter against the wall and she would put a big box of donuts and cookies and a few other goodies on the great big counter for people to eat and all of the kids that staid ordered a meal from McDonald's. A hour later when the basket ball game had ended all of the people went to their own houses with their parents including me. Some times on Fridays me and the other class from the seventh through the twelve grade staid at the school for a dance that they had in the great big gym and all of the older kids would sit on the long benches in the gym to talk to each other and the lights would be turn off in the great big gym but there was a great big disco light hanging down from the ceiling and these tiny dots of lights went around the whole gym it was beautiful and the music were playing too. So some people including me was dancing I was dancing on my feet with a couple of beautiful ladies One time when I was dancing on the gym floor with a beautiful lady some people were dancing around us I felt so good inside. later my mother had drove to the school at nine at night to pick me up and took me home. In the summer of nineteen eighty-four I went to a camp called camp echo that was in Gashing Massachusetts it was a great camp. But camp echo would be run by the people that went to a collage called North Eastern University. Some days at the camp I would go swimming at a beach there with some other campers and their counselors some campers was in manual wheelchairs including me and some was in electric wheelchair. So we would load in the van there and a counselor would drive us to the beach of coarse we all had our bathing suit on and I took my four prong cane so that I could walk down the sandy beach and into the water and then I would go swimming but I would swim with out no life vest and I swam pretty good too like a big giant fish. Back at camp echo all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor had a activity every morning called sunshine therapy. In that activity every body laid on a few great big colorful pillows there and campers and counselors would massage each other and soft music was playing too. One counselor would tell a story too. Then every body would rest a few minutes and listen to soft music. On every Thursday all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor from camp echo all got seated on the van and we all went to River side park in Agawam Massachusetts. A few hours later when me and all of the other campers and their counselors arrived at river side park we all got off of the van including me and the counselors took my wheelchair too. So all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor went on a few rides at river side park like we went on the roller coaster, the rock an roll express and a few other rides too. On every Tuesday night every body at camp echo including me would have a big dance in the recreation hall and it was great I was dancing up on my feet with some of the lovelies female counselors. Every day the counselors would let me walk holding on to my four prong cane up to the dining room and every where else in camp. And all of the counselors would even let me walk with my four prong cane when me and all of the campers and their counselors go out to eat at a restaurant like a restaurant called the whales-inn where we had went every Thursday night to eat. They even let me walk at a place called Lukes park their I had to walk up a little hill then I had to open the fence door to go in to the park because there was a big long swimming pool so me and all of the campers and their counselors could go swimming. Back at the camp before all of the campers and their counselors ate their meals they would read a prayer up on the back wall it would say for food and health and happy days we thank the lord for the food he gave in serving others lord may we bless the thank with our love to thee I had to leave the third week of camp echo But I had to go home to my house in New Hampshire for one week. When I was home at my house in New Hampshire I would sit down and watch TV. or I would go swimming in the out doors swimming pool and some days I would even drive my motor scooter down the road a bit. A few days later my mother had drove me back to camp echo for the last week. The last week every body at camp echo would go on a real long trip including me So we all had gone on a trip to Canada it was great up in Canada we all ate at a restaurant in Montreal Canada and we all saw all of the waterfalls at Niagara falls and every body including me had a great time. Up in Gilmanton Ironwork New Hampshire I had been to a camp for a week it was called camp Fatima. It was a Catholic camp where all of the campers and there counselors would have church there every day. They would have Mass out side in a different location there and some people would put on a big play called Cinderella and the ugly step sisters so that every body at the camp could watch the play. Today when I am walking with my four-prong cane with my one good strong arm my balance may get a little off track. I also would have to wear a baseball helmet to protect my head. My relationship with my family and friends is great at times In the past there has been people that would take advantage of me because I am disabled. For example; My care takers they would take money from me, they would smoke pot and drink alcohol, and would often not be at my house when I returned from my work shop. In the year nineteen-nine-three a twenty-one year old girl had called me on my telephone to get the care taker job. So we went out at first but when she had promised my parents that she would take me out when they was in Florida she never did. When we went down to Walt Disney world in April she did not take me out for three days. Not until a few staff people invited us out to go on some of the rides at Walt Disney world that was the only time that I had got to go out. One female care taker that I had for five years in an apartment building when I used to live on thirty Revere beach parkway had bought a world pool machine so that she could put it in the tub. Then she would turn on the water then she would lie back in the bath tube and lie her head on the world pool machine. I was way in my room sitting in my recliner chair. Later I had heard a very, very, soft voice from the other bath room saying George help, help I thought she had said George phone, phone. So I answered the phone. But there was no one on the telephone. So I had yelled back that there was no one on the telephone and she had said no help, help, So I had to walk kind of fast in to the other bath room. When I had just got in there she was yelling pull out the plug. So I pulled out the plug that was plugged in to the wall. Then my room mate said to me quick go get help. So I went to get some help I had called 911 on the telephone. A police woman answered the telephone at her office. She had said to me what is the matter then I had said come quick my care taker had got her hair caught in a world pool machine. So she had said we will be right over. Later a police man had buzzed the door buzzer down stair. So in my apartment on the seventh floor I had heard the buzzer so I press the button from up stairs to let him in the glass door down stairs. Later I had saw five or six guys running up the hall way. So I opened the door for them and said over here guys, over here. When they had got in to my apartment I had pointed them to where the victim was. So they had went in to the bathroom to help my care taker get her hair unstuck from the dreaded would pool machine. So one guy had ran in to the kitchen to get the scissors that were on top of the refrigerator. Then he had to run back in to the bath room to cut off the hair that was stuck in the world pool machine. And telling for people to wait because she didnt have a towel around her bare body. I mean what gratitude for you here is a few really great people that wanted to save her life and all she is wearying about is having one stinky old towel around her. She should have thanked them for what they did for her and she should had thank me too. When we went to Florida on a week in April we went to Walt Disney world we went out and did stuff every day down there. But in the summer of nineteen ninety-nine I went to camp in Connecticut called camp Hemlock. So I had got up from my bed and I took a shower by myself and got dress later. Then I had got my four prong cane to walk down to the car and then my mother drove me to camp Hemlock that was in Connecticut. When me and my parents was there I had to be checked out then my parents had brought my luggages to my room and later they went home. At that camp a lot of campers and their counselors got in a big giant circle including me and my counselor. Then all of the campers including me had told every body there how we got our bad accident. There I had gone down a great big hill to go boating and of coarse I was in my wheelchair with some of the campers and their counselors including mine and some went fishing there The next morning I would go swimming right after breakfast with my counselor and some campers and their counselors too. They had a great big giant swimming pool in the pool room there and the deep part was about five or six feet deep. I would go swimming there two days. Every day for my meal I would walk holding on to my four prong cane and up a great big hill but I didnt mind the walk. When I was walking back from my meals I would still walk on the flat surface of the road but when I had got to the hill that goes down right away I sat back in my wheelchair and I were wheeled down the great big hill by my counselor and I walked the rest of the way to my cabin. I stayed at camp Hemlock only for five days. When my mother drove her car to camp Hemlock to pick me up on Friday she said to me George I have some bad news for you your care taker had left the house for good and I was very disappointed at my former care taker for leaving me the way that she did. When I needed her the most she abandons me. That is exactly what I am trying to get out here. That the general public dont knows about head-injuries or disability unless it happened to them period. Now sure she went out walking for three hours and I was at home all alone and I would get seriously hurt a couple of time so hurt that I had to go to the hospital. But she was not around when I was in pain. Instead she was out doing her own thing and that is not fair and it is not right either in fact it is darn right cruel Being a guy with a disability is a problem a problem that you can not control. Like I have been disabled for all of my life now and I only have the use of one arm here and it is my strong arm too. Of coarse I could wash myself, I could dress myself, I could feed myself, and I could brush my own teeth. But that is it I can not cook a meal in the oven with out burning myself I can not lift something to heavy like a big color TV or a big heavy bench. I can not drive a car or a truck either and that is true. Some care takers would not be there to open the door for me. One person would stay out all night, wouldnt get back until the following day. Or my care taker would never get back and they would lie to me too or abandon me. Then I would be a lone which makes it easier for me to get hurt. I have a few scars and stitches on my head to prove it. Some would even take my four prong cane away from me for no reason that made me mad. They wouldnt give it back to me until I was good. It is just like if I grabbed hold of both of your good legs and I would not let you use your legs to walk with until you were good. I need my four prong cane to walk with and I can not use it to walk with until you let it go so you better think first before grabbing some one else stuff or the thing that they are going to need most of all and thats a fact. I made a lot of paintings. I had wrote a few stories and I even made some things out of clay too. In the year of nineteen-eighty-eight I fell in a swimming pool and nearly drown luckily my sister Maria Russo pulled me out of the water and gave me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. My right arm was bent and I could not straighten it when I went swimming. The very next day I had an operation to make my right arm straighter. The doctors put a metal rod in my wrist and I had to wear an arm cast for a month. Now I am able to move my right arm a lot more even when I go swimming. When I was sixteen years old I went to Massachusetts hospital school in Canton I would live there in a cottage every week and only go home on every weekend. There I saw a lot of disabled people in electric wheelchairs and some that was in manual wheelchairs like my self. But those people that were in electric wheelchairs could not get up by themselves, could not get dress by themselves, could not feed themselves, could do nothing to help themselves a nurse had to do everything for them. Which was kind of sad some talked with a language board too. They got a big long gym there and a weight room filled with eleven or twelve different types of weight machines where I worked out every night and they would have a great big swimming pool too where I went swimming and I bowled there too. In the back of the gym was a great big long snack bar where they also held some activities too. I went to school every day there too. In one class you would really go to work in. Like I would put together some parts of a camera and I would do that for a few months. When that job was all done I would have to cut suspenders. when that job was finish I would have another job. The name of the class was called project eye. When all of the kids there including me went home on every Friday we would stop off at project eye and get paid by a guy name Walter that was the day that I like most of all. I would even join a singing group called the noontime sings, There were eight people some were in electric wheelchairs and some were in manual wheelchairs including myself of coarse. There were a little store in the school where you could by stuff like some big note books, some pens and pencils, some candy bares, and even some chocolate fudge sickles that was in a big box in a freezer. I wheeled my wheelchair in the campus store to buy things almost every day after school and I would even by a chocolate fudge sickle for me to eat. On every Tuesdays and Thursdays after school there a few kids including me would have a game called track and fields in that game some kids would wheel in their wheelchairs really, really fast around the whole school building including me of coarse there was a few people that could run around the building too. Some days I would go down to the barn with some people that were in manual wheelchairs like me and some that were in electric wheelchairs and some able body people too we would have to milk the goats and feed the horses I would even go horse back riding too. The staff person that was in charged of the activity had every body that went horse back riding wear a helmet but I already had my helmet and I was wearing my helmet too. A few nights I would even go swimming with a few people. So that night I had got my clothes out of my draw and then I would wheel up to the gym in my wheelchair to get ready to go swimming. When I wheeled in to the great big gym I wheeled in to the mens locker room to change in to my bathing suit so that I could wheel in to the pool room to go swimming the water was cool and warm too. One day all of the people that were in track and fields including me had a track meet down in Florida. So every body got loaded on the great big long bus and then the driver drove us to the air port so that we could get on a airplane and then we all flown to Florida. A few hours later when the airplane landed in Florida we got a van to take us to the hotel I would bring my four prong cane with me to do some walking of coarse. I had to bring my manual wheelchair too so that I could compete in some wheelchair races every body had a great time there. Two days later we all rode a van to the airport and then we all would get on a airplane to fly back to Boston. A few hours later we got on the big long bus that was outside and the driver drove us back to Canton Massachusetts hospital school. In April nineteen eighty-eight all of the people that was in Massachusetts hospital school went to a prom. So I was at my house watch my TV one Saturday. So I had decided to call a young lady name Donna Wesley on my telephone that I knew from camp echo. So I said hi Donna, are you doing some thing tomorrow? And she said no. Then I had said do you want to go to a prom with me and she said ok. So back at the Canton school I had to get undress to take a shower and then later I had gotten dress in my black and white tuxedo suit. Later when every body at Canton Massachusetts hospital school including me was all dressed up we all had rode to a prom in a van and me and Donna went too. At the prom I would park my wheelchair over to the side and I would stand up on my four prong cane to walk there and of coarse I did some dancing with Donna too. Later we all had to get back to Massachusetts hospital school for Donna to go home with her parents. One night in a cottage called Bradford cottage in nineteen-eighty-seven I were suppose to sing up at the auditoriums in the school to sing in a concert. But a nurse that was on duty said where are you going George? I had said that I am singing at the concert. She said oh no your not you had already sang. And then I had said but the music teacher wants me to sing. So the nurse had said to me wait there and I will call her in the office. I was glad that I had a one-hand drive wheel chair then because when the nurse went in to the office to make her phone call out in the hall way I had just wheeled off like a bat out of hell and I had wheel out the electric door and up the short hill and down a long hill and through the sliding glass door and in the school lobby. Then I had wheeled in to the auditorium and I wheeled on the stage to sing with the other kind that were in wheelchairs of coarse we all sang to a audience and my parents came to hear me sing too. Hours and hours later all of the disable kids that was in wheelchairs including me wheeled back to our cottages. When I had arrived back at my cottage the nurse apologized to me for thinking that I was not going to be in the concert when I was in the concert and I had already gone to the concert too without letting her see me leave either. That year in Bradford cottage they were not going to let me walk at all but in my bed room even if I would sneak out of my room to stretch my legs they would see me walking and then go get my wheelchair and then they would push my wheelchair up to me and then they would make me sit down in my wheelchair even my physical therapist did not want me walking alone and it started to bug me a lot that at my house on thirty-eight Dexter street I had to beg for my parents to go have a meeting with the physical therapist at my school. A few weeks later my parents came to the Massachusetts hospital school to have a meeting with my social worker and a guy named John L. and my physical therapist to discuss my walking After that meeting I could walk where ever I want to walk except to swimming which was one of my activities. Because when I got out of swimming I would be to tired any way of all of that swimming. But all of the rest of my activities I got to walk to using my four prong cane. In the year of nineteen-eighty-eight all of the young men and woman that graduated from canton Massachusetts hospital school including me went down to Walt Disney world in Florida. So before we all could go we had to attend a meeting every Monday afternoon. The meeting was just about what were we going to see and do down in Walt Disney world and what rides could we go on too and what kinds of restaurant is at Walt Disney world too? The person that shared a hotel with me down in Walt Disney world was a gut named Neil Claymont and he was a great guy to hang around with and we had went on all of the rides too. a week in April me and all of the other graduates from Canton Massachusetts hospital school and some of the staff people too got our clothe all packed up then we all went on a big long bus later the driver drove us to Logan airport where we got unloaded of off the big long bus and then all of us went in to Logan airport and later we went on a air plane. Of coarse some of the graduates disable students that went had their wheelchairs loaded on the air plane including me. Three hours later the air plain landed in Orlando Florida. So we had got on a van to stay at the Disney world hotel. A few hours later we all had arrived at the Disney world hotel to get all loaded in to our rooms of coarse I took my for prong cane with me so that I could do some walking and I had went on a few rides too Like the Pirate ride and the ride through the haunted man chin and we would see all of the ghost and I would have fun down there too. The next day everybody from the Massachusetts hospital school rode in a van to the air port in Florida and flown back to Boston. I went to Massachusetts hospital school until I was twenty-one years old. When I was twenty-two years my brother Joe had invited me to stay with him for a week end up at the University of New Hampshire collage campus. So my mother had got my clothe all packed up and then my mother drove me all the way up to New Hampshire to stay at my brothers dorm at the University of New Hampshire. When me and my mother had arrived there she had brought my suitcase in to the University and she pushed me in my wheelchair too. Of coarse we had brought my four prone cane too so that I could do some walking inside my brothers University. I had got to meet some of my brothers friends at the University and we talked and saw a movie too. My brother collage were very, very, long indeed. He and I had slept in his room that was up stairs. One day later I had rode back to Medford with my mother. In October me, my mother and father packed up the car and we rode all of the way to Florida early that morning. We were on the rode all of that day and night too but we did stop at a hotel to sleep. The next day we had got up to get dress to go out to get back in the car and my mother continued driving me and my father down to Boca Raton Florida. We was on the rode for forty-eight hours until we had arrived at our condo in Boca Raton Florida. So we had brought all of our suitcases in to the condo and later we ate at a restaurant then later we had rode back to the condo and went to bed. All that I did down there was watching the TV and some days I would walk around the whole block holding on to my four prong cane of coarse. When I had got back I was very, very, tired indeed. Because it would be a whole mile around the block. Some days I would go across the drive way and open a gate to go swimming in the in ground swimming pool and it was a great big pool too. A week later my parents had me going to a place called Twin Palms for the day and it had a lot of people with mental retardation going to that program and they were able bodied too. I would go at eight o'clock and my mother would drive me there. Then I would have to walk in the brick building holding my four prong cane of coarse. Inside I would sit down in a chair and do some reading and math too. To tell you the truth it was more like school then work to me. Nine clients was there including me. Every day when we get there we had to say the pledge of the legions to the flag out side while we stood up. Then later we all would go in the brick building to do some school work well at lease I did. The other clients did real work like sorting the mail and putting stamps on all of the mail and other kinds of work too. When I wanted to do some work a female staff lady said no George it is to hard for you when I knew I had done that work before. But she did not even give me a chance to see if I could do the work and that is not right at all. Every body should have a chance to do that particular task even a disable person and if that person can not get it right the first time then just show that person how to do that task and then that person would get it right that is fair. Later my mother drove to Twin Palms to pick me up in her car and then my mother drove me home back to the condo. When we got back home me and my mother had got out of the car then we walked in to the condo. Me, my mother and father ate our dinner at the condo and later I would watch TV for a little while and later I would go to bed. The next morning I would got out of bed to take a shower and my mother would pour me some cereal and coffee then at nine oclock my mother would drive me to Twin Palms. At Twin Palms I had got out of my mothers car with my four Prong cane and I would walk in to the brick building there and my mother would drive home. in the brick building I would walk to the kitchen there to put away my lunch. Then I would walk out side with my four prong cane and all of the clients there said the pledge of the legions to the flag. Then every body walked in side the brick building including me. In side the brick building me and the rest of the clients went right to work. Later a lady came in to Twin Palms then she had every body there making some puppets sing to a song that were on the tape recorder including me too. Me and the rest of the clients had put the puppets on our hands ever day and made them sing at Twin Palms. Later we done some work and talked to each other too while we were working of coarse. Later all of the clients there including me all walked to the refrigerator to grab our lunches and then we all had walked back to the table to eat our lunches including me too. Later me and all of the clients there did a little work then we all had gone to our own houses including me I had went to my house with my mother. One day at our house in Boca Raton my mother saw a ad in the news paper about a lark three wheel motor scooter that was for sale for five-hundred dollars. So my mother had got me a motor scooter. The next day when I would get back from my Twin Palms program I would get on my motor scooter and then I would drive my motor scooter around the block. After I rode my motor scooter around the block I would drive my motor scooter up to the door that was out side my house and open the door to drive my scooter in side. Then I would park my motor scooter against the wall in a little porch that had a palm tree in the middle of the ground by the door leading in to my condo. Then I would turn off the power and then I would go in to my condo. I would drive my motor scooter every day when I would get back from Twin Palms. A month later me, my mother and father we had got the car all packed up and then me, my mother and father had rode back up to Medford. When I was twenty-three I went to a program that was in Woburn called Mentor. Which is run by SHIP that means the State Wide head Injury Program. So every day a different driver would go to thirty-eight Dexter street to pick me up and then I was driven to ELY tee station so that I could transfer to another van and that van driver drove me to Mentor that was in Woburn. Some days I would have health and safety, that is when we discuss things that you need to be safe and things that do with your health too. Some days I would have about head injury group that where you learn about the different types of head injuries and how you could prevent from getting a head injury in the first place like wearing a helmet when playing any kinds of sports and wearing a seat belt in a moving vehicle. Even what different area of your brain control what particular limbs of your body and how those limbs can not work for you no more if you get in a very, serious accident. Like a motor vehicle accident or a slip and fall accident too. Some days a few people including me would have currents events thats when you talk about what is going on in the news and a few people including me would have a group called sex education. I kept a few little note book that I took notes down in. In the winter month my parents went down to Florida and I stayed with a young lady name Lisa and her younger daughter name Megan. So when I had came back to my house Lisa would open the door for me. Some nights me and Lisa would go out to eat at a restaurant called the happy haddock. While Lisas mother baby sat little Megan. Some days even Lisas family would go over my house just for a visit of coarse. On every Wednesday the mentor program did not start until two oclock in the afternoon. So I just sat in my recliner chair watching TV at my house and I would eat my lunch at twelve oclock. After I ate my lunch I would get ready for my van to arrive to my house. Later I would walk out to the van to step in side to take a seat. Then the driver would drive off while I was all seated and buckled up too. So I was on my way to mentor everybody that went there including me would get loaded in to a van and we would go some where. Like to the malls, out to a restaurant, to a amusement park and other places too. When every body rode back to mentor including me it was seven thirty at night. So our drivers had drove to mentor to pick us up at eight oclock at night to drive us to our own houses. A few month had past until my parents had came home to our house on thirty eight Dexter street. So Lisa and her little daughter Megan had went back to their own house. that summer my mother drove me to camp echo which was run by another camp. But the lady that was in charge had real short, short, hair and gray hair too and she never smiled either. When I did some thing no one word give me a hand. If I could swim I couldnt but the other guys could swim. One night when I were sleeping some punks would poor jell junk in my ear and when I would wake up the next morning I would feel the jell junk in my ear so I would have it clean out of my ear and Im glad to still hear too. On my last day at camp I were walking in to the kitchen to eat my dinner with my cane when I accidentally fell no one said are you all right George so I stood up on my feet to walk over to sit at the table to eat my dinner. Then the female head counselor at camp she made fun of me in front of every body in the dining room by giving me a award saying I dont fall and all of the kids was happy too. But that made me sad in side if a person is having trouble walking. Or is trying to walk again it doesnt give you the right to make fun of that disabled person just remember that you could be that way some day and it is true too. Later when my mother would drive her car to my camp and pick me up to drive me up to our house in New Hampshire she said that the head female counselor at my camp wasnt very nice to you and I agreed. Up in our house in New Hampshire I drove my motor scooter and some days when it was hot out side I would either stay in my house with the fan on me or I would go swimming in our in ground swimming pool out side. On every Thursdays up in New Hampshire a older guy with a white beard and mustache would drive his truck to my house and pick me up and he would take me places one day it was to a restaurant to eat lunch another time he would drive me to his house to let me pat all of his huskies. But he called them wolves because he said that he were putting the wolf brain back in those huskies. He said when people get the dogs they train them like huskies and he said to me that is wrong they should be treated as wolves and I say that to each his own. But one other day he drove me a long way and drove me up mount Washington it was great up there. There were a big museum on mount Washington and a observatory and a weather station too. It was great up on mount Washington I even had the guy that drove me up there name Fred snap a few pictures of me while we were on mount Washington. We even went to a place called Heritage house. It is when you go in the house and you walk up a great big ramp and you would walk in to a room and you would feel the floor move like you were on a boat and they would show a short movie while you are in the room all about New Hampshire and what kinds of wild animals to encounter while you are in New Hampshire. When the movie ends you go all the way down a much bigger ramp and you see a few little creature like raccoons, bears, bobcats, and a few other little creatures like that. There is even a few great big rocks too but they were all fake like they were made from card board and ceramics and you see three guys spearing fishes but the guy were mannequins but the fishes were really swimming in the long stream there and real water too. Then we entered a cabin and we saw two more mannequins just sleeping. We would saw a bare that they didnt let drunks in long ago and we would see a movie about every body from long, long, ago going to war on horses. We would see and hear a mannequin of Daniel Webster taking all about his life living in New Hampshire and there would be a special camera that would shine on the mannequins face to make it look like he is really talking and next to the mannequin of Daniel Webster is a slide show of where he use to live and the things that he use to do when he was in New Hampshire. Then we saw George Washington when he use to do his speech in Port smith New Hampshire. We would see other stuff there too. Then we would go in to the room shape like you are sitting on a train and the floor moves like you are on a train and on the right and left long screen is a few pictures that goes by you and you would think that you were riding a train. When all of the people that was in the room including me and Fred we then went into the gift shop there. They had all different kinds of candies and maple butter spreads and syrup too and cookies. They also had different kinds of hats books and coffee cups and other stuff too. Later we had gone out to Freds car and then he drove me home to my house. On the weekend I would decide to walk by holding on to my four prong cane with my good strong hand out side in our yard in New Hampshire and I would walk across another yard and then I would cross a road but I was very careful walking across the road too. Then I would walk in to another yard and in to a family house that were very good friends with my parents and I would talk to them for a bit. Later I would walk over to a great big giant house call a ski club and when I would enter there was a lot of people buying drinks at the big long bar that was in there and the people were talking to each other too and I was talking to some people too. Then a few hours later I would walk back home and in to my house and then I would sit down to watch television. Once in a while people came over to my parents house to talk with my parents including me and my brother and sister too. Two days later me, my mother and my father would go home to Medford. In the winter month of nineteen-ninety-four I had another lady named Jonnie that lived with me while my parents was in Florida and I loved living with her too. When I would get home from my mentor program she would open the sliding glass door for me and make my meals for me and she would take me out on the week ends like to a mall, or a restaurant or to a movie and even the museum of science too. One time I had went to mentor dressed as a hippie because that is the way that they wanted me to dress as. So when I was all dressed up as a hippie I walked out the sliding glass door. But Jonnie got a camera to take a picture of me doing the peace sign later I went to my van. One time at mentor at the Halloween party there I dressed up as a prisoner and a guy I new name Steven dressed up as the same thing and I even made a haunted castle painting too. So a person that worked there hanged up my painting on a wall at mentor and me and Steven had our picture taking together and with my painting hanged above me and him too. Every body that went there was dressed up in different Halloween costumes and we all had a great time too. Later at eight oclock at night all of the clients vans came to take them to there own houses including mine too. In the month of July nineteen-ninety-eight all of the people in the Mentor building got all loaded on to a van to go to the Stevenson house there they got a big built in swimming pool that me and all of the people from Mentor had our bathing suit on and then went in the swimming pool to go swimming. A long rope separated the shallow part of the pool from the deep part of the pool. There is a big long slide on the right side of the pool where the deep part is so that you could slide down but we did not used it. They also had different kind of sandwiches too. One day I had learned that trees give us much, much, more then we had thought. Like trees take in carbine dioxide and give us oxygen so that we could breathe better. Trees also give us lots of shade and trees are homes to a lot of little animals like raccoons, chipmunks, squirrels, beavers, and every different kind of birds, and other little animals too. We get medicine from the leaves on trees and from plants too. You get maple syrup from maple trees and rubber from rubber trees and we get different kinds of fruits from trees too. We also get wood from the bark of trees to build houses, chairs, tables, counters, and draws and cubbies too. I mean a world with out trees would be one big dessert. So I new then why trees are very, very, important to the environment and how we should save and plant all trees today and it is true too. Another time at the mentor program I went horse back riding with two guys named Peter and Steven. So when my van dropped me off at mentor I went on the van with the two guys but a staff person would drive us of coarse. We all would go horse back riding for a few weeks every Wednesday. A month later when my parents came home Jonnie stilled stayed with me. When the weather got warmer out side and all of the snow had melted I would go on my motor scooter and then I would drive to the corner store to by a carton of milk or some scratch tickets. A few weeks later me, Jonnie, my mother and father had packed up all of our clothe and other stuff and then drove to thirty Revere beach park way. When we had arrived at thirty Revere beach park way we staid in a apartment building on the seventh floor. Then when I had moved there a driver drove me straight to mentor that was in Woburn. There even was a in ground swimming pool out side of the apartment building. So all of the people that lived in the apartment building could go swimming in the summer time including me and my roommate Jonnie of coarse. A few weeks later Jonnie had left my apartment building. But a twenty-one year old girl had lived with me and my parents then. Until my parents had left for Florida she had invited her strange friend to the apartment building and just went out with them. Everyday when I would get back from my mentor program I would walk off of the van with my roommate and then I would go in a room with five different weight machines and two exercise bikes. But I would just do the weight machine thirty times on both leg and they were hard to do but I new that I could take it and I were sweating too. Later I had took the elevator up to the seventh floor a lone and I had opened my door alone too. Then I had walked in to my bed room to sit down in my reclining chair and I watched TV a bit later I had ate my dinner and went to bed. At Mentor one day all of the clients including me and the staff people too. loaded on the van and then we rode to a high school in Andover and we all would hold signs out side supporting the seat belt law and it was a good law too. It still is I know that I wear my seat belt when Im in a moving vehicle and you should too or else you could in fact get a very, very, serious head-injury and neck-injury too like me and some of my friends too it is the law and that is very, very, true too. Later after standing out side for a half of an hour and some of us was in wheelchairs too holding signs up in the freezing cold air we all then loaded up the van and then we all rode back to Mentor. Later at eight oclock all of the clients vans came to take them to their own houses including mine too. When I got to my apartment my roommate would wait for me and she would walk with me to the weight room and when I sat down on a weight machine then my roommate she would leave me there and go back up stairs. Down stairs in the weight room every day I would sit on a red seat and I would put my legs in the leg holders and then I would put the big long gray screw that was chained to the weight machine into a fifteen pound iron plate that was also connected to the weight machine and other much, much, heavier plates too. Then I lift the big heavy fifty pound iron plate for thirty times on each leg. Then after I did thirty times on each leg I had done thirty times on both of my arms too. Later I had took the elevator there all of the way to the seventh floor and I walked up the hall way all a lone to my apartment. When I had got in to my apartment I had walked in to my bed room to watch my TV for a little bit. In the den where there were another TV I could hear my roommate taking on her cell phone and she would walk a round the whole apartment talking in to her cell phone too. Every day she would talk to one of her friends on her cell phone and it looked like the cell phone was growing out of her ear too. On the week ends she would go out with her friends and leave me home a lone. She would even invite her friends to my apartment too and most were black boys too. But one would even lay down with her on my parents bed, Then when my parents came to the apartment building and had ask me George did she sleep in our bed? Then I would say yes she did sleep in your bed room. Then she would say that it wasnt true when she did. One time when I got back to Mentor from an outing a guy that worked there had taken my four prong cane away for no reason. I was mad at him for doing it too. Later when I had ask him for my four prong cane back he said no and a few more times when I had ask him he had said no too. That made me mad he had no reason to lock my cane up that he had put in a room like that. So I had grabbed his hand out of anger until he had open the door or another person opened the door. Luckily my ride had came to the Mentor building to pick me up. And to drive me home to my apartment on thirty Revere park way. In the year of nineteen-ninety-nine every Monday morning I would work at my sister tuxedo shop taking pins out of tuxedo shirts and separating the pins too. And my father would drive me to my apartment building in thirty Revere beach park way at four oclock. When I went to work for my sister she didnt mine if I walked with my four prong cane. On every Friday I would do volunteer work at a place called Lawrence memorial hospital. But a male staff person that worked at mentor worked at Lawrence memorial hospital with me and I got to walk in there holding on to my four prong cane too. But when I went to lunch that was the only time that I ever used a wheelchair. The reason why I had to use a wheelchair is because the lunch room was a mile down the hall way and you take the elevator up to the kitchen. The other reason why I had to use a wheel chair was lunch were only for a half of an hour. So a guy name Mike that was working with me had said wait a minute George I am going to get a wheel chair? So I had said ok Mike I will wait. So I waited and I waited and then I could see him pushing a wheel chair for me down the hall way and then when he got the wheel chair next to me he had said to me sit down in the wheelchair please George. So I sat down in the wheelchair then he pushed me to lunch. Later after we had ate our lunch he had pushed me back to the elevator to take me down stairs and then he had pushed me down the hall way. So that I could go back to work and when Mike got me in the room where I was working I had sat in a regular chair. Then I had to continue doing the labels and Mike he had to push the wheel chair back to where he had got it. At three oclock my roommate at that time drove to Lawrence memorial hospital to pick me up and to take me back home to my apartment. So when my roommate walked in to the room where I was working I had walked up the hall way and to the car and I got in my car and then my roommate would drive me back to my apartment. On the week end when it was sun out side we would walk down the hall way and get on the elevator to go down to the garage and we would walk to our car and get in. Then my roommate drove me to castle Island so that we could go walking. My roommate would be so proud of me. Because I would walk a half of a mile up to the benches. Than up at the benches we would sit there and rest for a little while. Later we would walk all of the way back to the car. When I had walked to the car I would get so, so, tired and I would look back. Then I would say I cant believe that I had just walked a half of a mile to the car. One weekend on a Saturday me and my roommate parked on the other side of castle Island. Later me and my roommate got out of the car and then we had walked along the side walk and then we even came along a great big hill. Then we had walked up the great big hill. Of coarse I did not mine the walk up the great big hill at all. But some weekends I wouldnt fall at all we even walked in to the great big castle itself. But the castle looked liked to me of being a great big out doors ring. A few times we even ate our lunches there we would sit on the benches that were near the drive way and my roommate would buy hotdogs or hamburgers and some onion ring at the restaurant that they had at castle Island. But it is not a Island no more like it was a long, long, time ago it is really now called castle beach and me and her would eat out side on the benches and there would be a whole lot of pigeons flying around too. One Saturday me and my roommate and my friend Timmy and my other friend name Mark all got in my car and my roommate drove us to eat some ice cream. So we all had got some ice cream and me, my roommate, my friend Timmy, and my other friend name Mark ate our ice cream at the ice cream restaurant. Then later after eaten our ice cream my roommate drove us home. A half of an hour later we all smelled something really terrible in the car and it was my roommate she had farted in the car so we all had to open our windows really wide the rest of the way home including me. At my program in Woburn called Mentor one Wednesday me and all of the clients and staff would get loaded in the vans and then we would ride all of the way down to Boston Harbor. When all of the clients and the staff had arrived to the Boston Harbor we all had to unload off of the van and because some of the clients were in wheelchairs including me our wheelchairs had to be unhooked from the van floor and then we just wheeled out of the van. Then we all had to get on a big ship that was headed to Georges Island. It took a half of an hour for the ship to dock then every body on the ship including us got on Georges Island Georges Island had castles on it where they use to lock prisoners up and we had saw where they use to cook a long, long, time ago and me and the clients and the staff to had our lunch after we all ate our lunches we had got back on the big ship and went back to Boston harbor. When we were back at Boston harbor we all got loaded on the van then we rode back to a place called Mentor. At Mentor we had got off of the van then went in side the Mentor building to wait for our rides to go back to our own houses. On Saturday me and my roommate would order food then walk over to eat there on a benches they had on castle Island. On a few week me and my roommate she would drive me all of the way to Wilmington to see my roommate family and she had me walking into their apartment building too. A week later it was Friday when I got in to the hospital I had walked down the hall way and in to a room where I worked and then I sat in a chair then I would work on sticking name labels on to envelopes. One day in August me and all of the staff and client at mentor loaded up the vanes and we would ride to a client house in Andover and we all got to meet his parent too. Out back in their yard they had a big swimming pool where every body there would go swimming including me. The client parents would have all kinds of subs like a cold cut sub, a turkey sub, a tuna fish sub, and other subs there and drinks too like coke and sprite and other drinks like that. I went to that program until ninety-ninety-seven until I started going to project Triangle. There a guy name Kevin there would evaluate me doing different kinds of stuff. Like I would put names of states in alphabetical order that would be kind of hard but I did not mine a bit. Later they did not mine if I walked to the elevator to take it down stairs so that I would wait for a van to drive me back to my apartment building. When I had got back to my apartment building after dinner I had watched my TV. in my recliner chair for a while and then I went to bed later. The next day a van driver had drove to my apartment building to pick me up and then drove me to Triangle Inc. So when I had got there I had walked in the door and I had took the elevator up stairs and I had walked to the evaluating room and I had to do some hard math problems called fractions at lunch time they did not mine if I walked down to the kitchen to eat my lunch. Every day at Triangle I would bring my lunch from my apartment building in a lunch bag to eat in the kitchen there. But the cooks that worked in the kitchen they cooked the meals and you would have to pay for your food too. But I would just bring my lunch from home it was much cheaper that way and better too. Later I would walk back up stairs to do some more evaluation test. I had been evaluated at Triangle inc. for a few more days until when I had gone in after the weekend I had walked to the elevator to take it up stairs and I had walked down a hall way and in to a room where I had went right to work. I would work on different kinds of jobs. Like for a few month I would have to put a few letters in a great big envelope. When I was all done with that job then for another month I would count twelve candy dots strips and put them in a plastic bag. There was a week that me and the clients that worked in my work area had no work at all But all of the work would be down stair. So me and all of the clients and our supervisor too all had got up out of our chairs and then we all had to go down stairs there I went down stairs in the elevator of coarse. When we were all at the work area down stairs I could not believe my eyes. The work area they had down stairs at project Triangle was a very, very, wide room and I had a different supervisor there too name Kathy. When I was working down there I had more work to do. The first job that I had in the great big warehouse at project Triangle was I had to put pricing labels on a lot of pretty big trays made out of tin foil. Me and the new clients that I worked with were working on that job for a few month. Then when that job was done I would be in charge by putting a flat can of black and brown shoe creme in a shoe polish kit some days I would be in charge of folding a rag up to wipe the shoe creme on the shoes and some days I would be in charge of the big round hair brush that also went in to the shoe kit and I would get a pay check every other Friday. The pay check means how much you worked. Like I would get a thirty dollar pay check some times. Other Friday I might get a forty or a fifty dollar pay check it depends on what type of work I do. After work my new roommate had picked me up that hardly spoke any English at all. Some days I couldnt under stand her. She was all the way from the state called China and she would buy these weird foods in China town of coarse. Most of the food she got in China town was quite good. In fact she made a great meal for me when ever I had arrived home to my apartment building. She drove me home from project Triangle. But some times I couldnt under stand a word that she had said. On October thirty-first of nineteen-ninety-eight my roommate drove me to a Halloween party at project Triangle. In the warehouse at project Triangle all of the people that worked there were wearing their Halloween costumes and they were dancing too including me. A hour later after every body ate dinner in the kitchen including me we all went back to the dance floor that was in the great big warehouse to dance some more. Later I had to go to the bathroom so I had walked up a long hall way to the bathroom. Then when I had got out of the bathroom I had continued walking up the hall way. Until I had saw a room so I just peaked in the room. The tan marble floor had so much sow dust from the other people that would make things with wood like a wooden box to put things in and they would build other things with wood too. Later I had walked all of the way back to the dance floor that were way at the far end of the warehouse. A hour later I had got my jacket on and Then I had waited for my roommate to drive me home to my apartment building which were only a short drive away from project Triangle. Then I had walked up five steps and down the hall way and I had took the elevator up stairs to the seventh floor. When the elevator doors opened I walked off of the elevator and down another hall way and in to my apartment and then in to my bed room watching my TV. After I had ate my dinner I had walked back in to my bed room again to sit in my recliner chair watching TV again. A few hours had past until it was ten thirty at night then I had clicked off my TV and the light too and then I had went to sleep in my bed. One day when I had came back from Triangle on a month in November nineteen-ninety-nine me and my parents and my roommate packed up all of our luggages and then I moved to live in Stone Ham with my roommate. But I lived down stairs from my sister and her husband Rick and their little kids named little Ricky and Michael. Practically every week end I would ride my motor scooter around the whole block and up a hill and down a hill and down the road and up the road and I would drive my motor scooter in the big parking lot to see a soccer game that was in the field. A year later the Chinese care taker had left and a new care taker had came. But she did not stay there the night so she was fired from the job. But a twenty-eight year old girl wanted to be my care taker So she had moved all of her luggage's in to my house and when ever I had arrived home from project Triangle she would cook me dinner and make my lunches for me to eat at my program. But when I was at my job she was at school in Boston and she wouldnt get to my house until five oclock at night or six. When I had came home to my house there would be no one there but my sister and her husband would be up stairs at their house and I would be a lone in my house down stairs waiting for my new roommate to come home to my house to make my dinner. So I had walked in to the garage and I had open my door with my key. Then I would walk in to my house and sit in my recliner chair and I watched my TV while I waited for my roommate named Rachel to come home to my house to make me dinner. In the summer of 2001 my mother and father had packed their car with all of my luggages and then my parents had drove me all of the way down to the cape because I was about to go to a Island that was called Marthas Vineyard and I had to go on a great big ship called a fairy and on that Island I had went to a place called camp Jabberwocky. At camp Jabberwocky I got all unpacked in to my cabin. When I was all unpacked and all of my clothe were away in a draw I walked to the dining room to eat my lunch. At the camp there were some disabled camper most were in electric wheelchairs and had to be fed their food by a counselor though they could not feed them self and their counselors had to dress them, brush their teeth and put their disable campers back in their electric wheelchair and that is sad too. Some disable campers was in manual wheelchairs because they could wheel their self with two arms. And there were disable campers that had four prong canes like me and walkers and some walked with crutches too and there were some able bodied campers. A lady from England was my her name was Caroline. My counselor and I did things together like she saw me paint a beautiful picture and so did the other counselors too. In fact before I went on the fairy ship back to the main land at camp while all of the campers and counselors finish dinner two females counselors had a picture with them and they turn the picture around and it was one of my painting and they even wanted me to go and walk with my four prong cane to the middle of the dinning room floor to tell them and all the rest of the campers and counselors where did I learn the skill to paint so good so I had told them the next day I had went home on the fairy. On the ship the lady from England came to the main land with me and as she were pushing me in my wheelchair off of the boat my mother and father greeted me back and they got to meet the lady that was my counselor named Caroline. Later after meeting and taking with my parents she went back to camp Jabberwocky on the great big ship. But one year later it was 2001 until I had went back to camp Jabberwocky and I had went for three weeks that time. So I had done a lot of paintings in the art and craft cabin and I had gone wind surfing and rowing on a canoe boat too. I went to a guys yard called Ernie Bocks for one day and was there ever a great big mob of people there eating hot dogs and hamburgers, corn on the cob, cold slow and talk to each other too. Later in the day I went swimming a the beach right next to his yard and because I swam so much me heart started beating louder, and louder, so I had rest on the sandy ground a bit. A half of an hour later I had stood up to walk with my four prong cane when I had walked up the hill there I saw a guy that was playing a synthesizer and singing too and if a person want he or she could sing too and there were people that were dancing to the music too. Everybody including me and every body from camp Jabberwocky had a great time there. A hour later we had rode back to camp Jabberwocky on the great big red bus. I even was in a play called Harry Pottery and I was one of the sorcerers and I even sang a song called miles from no where and I even were in a horse back riding show boy did I have the time of my life and each day was better, and better, for me. A week later every body at camp went on the great big ship called the fairy and rode to their own houses with their parents. On the week ends when it was nice out side my roommate would walk with me while I drove my motor scooter to the parking lot where all of the cars and trucks were and then I would park my motor scooter up to the edge of the great big and wide grassy field to watch all of the kids play soccer and my roommate was watching the game with me too. Of coarse I had took my camera to get some pictures of the game like I always do. But some times when me and my roommate watched the soccer game I wouldnt be able to get no pictures at all. Because I would forget my camera at home. When ever I rode on the van with this lady she would complains about how I like to tap my foot to the music that were playing in the van. The lady would start yelling at me because I was just tapping my left foot to the music that was playing in the van. But I didnt bother her so I didnt no why she yelled at me. At project Triangle one day me and all of the workers there in the warehouse was working on stuffing some big large envelopes with two booklet and one peace of paper with some information on it. But I had to work with another client though I were doing my half of the job she did not do her half and she made me mad then when I had told the boss on her she would look at the boss and say look I am working but she wasnt I could not believe my eyes that she would sit there and lie like that and then I would get in big trouble and all because I was helping this lady work who was not really working at all she was talk to no body and I was so mad at her so I yelled at her and I yelled because my boss would not believe me that she was not working and that was no fair and not right either. In fact I was going down the hall way in my wheel chair and then I had wheeled out of the glass door and I was very up set too. Later I had saw a ambulance speeding down the street and I thought some one got seriously hurt. Later I knew a case manager name Mike had called the ambulance on me to put me away. The guys that drove the ambulance drove me to a hospital. So at the hospital a woman said to me George why did you have your cane up. And I had said that is the way I hold it when I am in my wheelchair every day at Triangle inc. and we were talking in the hospital about some of the things that I had said to the lady that I was mad with and stuff like that. A hour later my sister had drove to the hospital and then she had drove me home to my house in Stone Ham. Later when I was at home in Stone Ham sitting in my recliner chair watching my TV my roommate was not at my house yet. So a hour later it was six oclock at night so she went to cook me dinner and her dinner too then I would watch my TV a little bit. Then I would walk over to go to sleep in my bed. One week end me and my roommate Rachel got in my car and she would drive me to Salem to ride the duck tour vehicle there we had a very long ride to Salem and we went to play a few games at Salem Willows too. One other time we went to some one house up in Glosser. Because my roommate that time was filming a movie with her other class mates for a class project and she just took me out of work that one day. So her and some of her class mates took all of the TV equipment up to these people house in Glosser and to film the people there in their rolls that my roommate gave them. But she gave another person my roll in the film. So when my roommate and her girlfriend took me with them to these people house that was in Glosser I had walked in their house with my four prong cane and I had walked around their house and I talked with some people and ate there too. Then I had walked out side to lay down on the grass and I did not want to bother the other people from their work. A few hours later I had got up from the ground and I had walked back in to the house. Later I was sitting down on a coach and I brought a camera with me. I had asked a person sitting there if he would go up stairs and snap a few pictures for me and he did. A hour later it was twelve thirty in the morning. So my roommate drove me to my house in Stone Ham and when I got home I went to bed. Month and month had past until when I came home from work my roommate was not home she had just checked herself in a center for drug abuse victims and she had been there for a few weeks and that was not right and not fair either. Because my sister had to cook me dinner up in her kitchen and then bring my food down stairs and she had to cook her son his food too. One afternoon in May I had to hurry home to my house from Triangle because I had to hear a band called the cure in concert at the Tweeter center. So I rode to my house on my van and then my roommate drove me to the cure concert. A few hours had past until we were at the cure concert and was there ever a great big crowd of people there. Most of them were teen age girls with pink hair to see the cure. Me and my roommate had box seats and we danced to some of their songs too. A couple of ours had past and the concert had ended so I had to go to the bathroom and so my roommate had pushed me in my wheelchair to the bathroom and I had took my four pong cane with me too and it was standing on my lap and I accidentally hooked my cane around a teenage girls neck. But it were her fault because she was standing right in the middle of the parking lot. So at the bathroom I had got up from my wheelchair and then I walked in to go to the bathroom. When I had got out of the bathroom we was about to go home until my roommate met a friend. Then every night her friend would sleep over in my roommate bed and my roommate were sleeping in her bed with her girlfriend. So I was real mad at her girlfriend too. I said look here you have got a car so you could go some where I dont have any car. So I had to depend on some one to take me out. You know what I didnt think she listen to me. So the next day was Saturday and I had went up to New Hampshire with my mother and father and I had a great time in New Hampshire. I went over some friends house and they had a house near a lake so I went boating and I went swimming for a while too. Later every body there went in side their house and eat including me and my parents too. We all would talk a little bit too. Two days later me and my family had packed up the car then my mother drove me home to my house in Stone Ham. A few hours later when I had arrived at my house my roommate had already left my house with her girl friend. So when I had got home to my house I was alone. But my sister and her husband was up stairs and I were down stairs watching my TV on my reclining chair some days I walked over to my computer and I were on the internet for a little while. A week later a thirty-five year old lady came to the house to live with me. But every day when I had went to my work she would make me a peanut butter and bananas sandwich for my lunch. Later on as weeks had past I had got sick of eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Some weekends I would ask for grill cheese or tuna fish sandwiches and she made me peanut butter and banana sandwich. One Friday when I had got to my house from Triangle she drove me up to New Hampshire in my car. When we were in New Hampshire she drove to a hotel up there to stay. Well I got to stay at a room at the hotel a lone watching the TV in the room. But I had no telephone in the room. So I couldnt call no one. I mean what were I going to do if I got seriously injury happen to me then. Why she did not think about getting me a room with a telephone. But when I had woke up from bed me and her did go out for breakfast and I rode with her over to her friends house and her boy friends too where she had staid and he had a telephone too. So I watched their TV for a while too. On Fridays when I would come home to my house in Stone Ham me and my roommate would go to eat at a restaurant called Spud. They had very good food there and me and my roommate had a great time there too. Some week ends we would go to eat at another restaurant the ground round at that restaurant they had great food to eat too. My roommate also worked at the ground round as a waitress while I went to work. One day in the winter me and my roommate and her sister that has down syndrome we all had went to see a movie that was called the Grinch that stole Christmas it was a great movie staring Jim Carry as the mean Grinch. So for my Christmas gift my roommate had gave me a mean little Grinch doll sitting in a Christmas stocking and that was not very nice of my roommate to give me for Christmas. A few weeks later it was Sunday and my roommate was busy doing some thing and I wanted to go out to eat and she said not now George and I was very bored in the house. So when I had ask again she still would not take me out to eat so I called my sister and then my roommate had took me out to eat. when I had got in the car my roommate drove me to Spuds restaurant. When we were there my roommate yelled at me for nothing after I yelled at her about I had always remembered to say please and thank you and that I had always stuck up for her and other stuff too. Later we went in to Spuds restaurant to eat I walked holding on to my four prong cane of course. In side Spuds I had a great lunch and she went out side and cried. The next day she had left me for good. A few week had past until I had a male care taker that stayed with me a few days until one night he did not come back until the next morning when my van had pulled in my drive was his car pulled in the drive way. But he did not stay to long because my brother in law had smelled booze on his breath so he was fired that day. When I had came home I was alone down stairs again. So my sister and her husband did not want any more care takers living with me down stairs no more. Because they would all drink alcoholic beverages and they would smoke pot two things that you should never do when taking care of a person that is disabled. And my sister and her husband did not want their two little kids expose to that junk and I dont blame them either. So my sister and her husband had hired a woman that staid with me in the day. So every day at four oclock when I came home to my house from work the care taker would be there and we would watch my TV. for a little while and she would cook me dinner and she would eat with me too. Then she would watch TV. with me again. At eight oclock at night she would go home to her house. Then I was at home down stairs in my house all a lone watching my TV. At ten thirty at night I would walk over to my bed and then I would go to sleep. Every morning I would wake up from my bed and walk to the shower and then I would take a shower and I would go back in my room to get dress and then I would pour my cereal and coffee and then I would eat my cereal and drink my coffee at the kitchen table. Some days my sister would go down stairs to pour my cereal and coffee for me and then she would bring them in the den for me while I watched the morning news on my TV. while I were waiting for my van. Every Friday after noon at four oclock when my driver had dropped me off at my house me and my care taker named Lisa had got in her jeep and then she would drive me to a restaurant called spuds and she did not mined if I walked in the restaurant too. When we got in to the restaurant there would be a very big crowd of people. So we had to wait but not long at all. Later a waitress would call out our name and we would be seated at the table to order our dinner and then eat our dinner too. On the Fridays that I had got a pay check me and Lisa would cash my pay check at a stop and shop store. So she had got me in her jeep and she drove me all the way to stop and shop to let me cash my pay check and she had let me walk in side stop and shop with my four prong cane too. When me and Lisa walked in side to cash my pay check we had to stand in a long line of people then when I did cash my pay check Lisa had let me walk back out to her jeep then she had drove me to spuds to order our dinner. At home on the weekends I would watch my walking with dinosaur tape and the tape were very interesting to watch too. I mean they take you back sixty-five-hundred-million years in to the past to the time of dinosaurs and they know what kind of plants and trees were growing then. What the climate and the temperature of the weather was like way back by computers imagery. Even what kind of dinosaurs were in what time period. I mean how can they know these things no human being was on earth when the dinosaurs room the earth and to think of it I am kind of glad that all of the dinosaurs are extinct. But I can see some dinosaur feature in all kinds of birds and animals of today. In the year two thousand I moved in to the McLaughlin House in North Reading. I am safer and I am better cared for, because of the great staff. The people that live here with me is also great. Now I have got a lot of people to talk to and I am making some new friends too. Most of them are in wheelchairs and they have different types of head-injuries too. like one guy was diving to close to the shallow end of a pool and he had hit his head hard and now he is in a wheelchair probably for life. When I first moved in to the McLaughlin house in North Reading there was one handicap kid that was living here and who had a attitude problem too. Every night there would be a beautiful young lady here name Suzanne she would prepare some meals for us so that we could eat. For a week in November of 2002 my brother called me on my telephone to ask if I could fly out to Colorado so I had said okay. So on Saturday I had slept at my sisters house in Stone Ham so the next morning my sister would drive me to logon air port so that I could fly out to Colorado. A few hours had past until I was in Colorado of coarse I had brought my clothe too. Later my brother had spotted me and he drove me to his house that was in as pan Colorado. It was a very, very, long ride to his house but we talked some. Later we had rode up a ten thousand foot mountain and I had got a little head ache. So my bother had gave me a big bottle of water to drink so that I could stop my head ache and it had worked too. When my brother had drove me to his house he had to park his car so that I could get out. Then I had to grab a very long wooden bar and I had to walk down thirty-two steps. Later when I was at the bottom of the stairs I walked in to my brothers and his girlfriend house and my brother had open my suitcase for me too in a room what was my bedroom. Later we would go back up stair to get in my brothers car then we all had rode to a restaurant up in as pen Colorado and we had met a friend named Bret and my brothers girlfriend named Bridget. A few minutes had past until me and my brother had arrived at the restaurant and then me, my brother, his girlfriend, and our friend Bret sat down at a table and ate our dinner. Of course they made me sit in my wheelchair because the restaurant was so big but I did not mind it at all. Every day I had to walk up and down those steps and there were a lot of steps too but I didnt mind. When I had rode with my brother and his girlfriend I had to drink a bottle of water every day because of the altitude levels and every where you looked in as pan Colorado there were great big giant mountains. Me my brother his girlfriend name Bridget and our friend named Bret had spent some days together like on Monday we went white water rafting, Tuesday we went to a place where there was some hot tubs and went in some. But before we rode there we had stopped off at Bret parent house. On Wednesday just me and my brother had went for a very long ride together. My brother let me walk up a trail and I got to feed so, so, many tiny chipmunks by sitting on a great big rock and my brother would tell me to open my left hand so that he could pour chipmunk food in to my hand and I felt a lot of tiny chipmunks coming up to me and eating their food out of my hand and it felt good too. Then later me and my brother had walked back to his car and we rode to different places. Two days had past until I had to go back home. So I had woke up and got dress and when me, my brother and his girlfriend walked all the way up the thirty-two steps that was outside we all had gotten in to my brothers car then we rode to Denver Colorado to go in to the Denver museum. A hour later when we were riding through Denver there were no big giant mountains at all the mountains were very, very far on our right side the mountains looked like very tiny speed bumps. When we had got out to go in the museum in side the museum they had all big stuffed prehistoric animals and dinosaur skeletons too that have assisted millions and billions of years ago it was great there and I have got some pictures and a dinosaur poster too. Later my brother and his girlfriend took me to the Denver airport and I had flown back to Boston. Three hours had past until I had to get off of the air plain to go in to logon air port and then my sister had drove me back home to North Reading. As weeks went on we got more disable people living here. Now there are eight disabled people living here at the McLaughlin house here in North Reading. We had got much more staff people working here too. Now it is never boring here and I am making friends here too. Although on the week ends I would decide to go to the dunking donuts restaurant if I went with a staff person but I had to go in my wheel chair. Because the restaurant was in a big large busy parking lot where there is a lot of cars and trucks that are going through so that the drivers could pay for what ever he or she had ordered. And the dunking donuts restaurant is not far from this house either. Around the corner from this house is a program called CLASS INC. And there I am doing some work by separating coat hangers I were working on those for a few month now and I get paid every Friday too. When I first worked there it was in December of two thousand and two and all of the clients there put twelve horse treats in a plastic bag. We had bagged them for a month and then we would put a little candy bar and a little booklet in side a envelope. Then when that job were done we would put four little computer chips in side a little plastic bag then sealed them close. My driver use to go and pick me up every afternoon at two thirty and then he would drive me home to my house in North Reading which was just around the corner from Class inc. The staff people that also works there is great to talk too. But some of the clients that also works there got a little of a attitude problem and they are rude too. There is a area of the building that only takes day care people and that area is right up the hall way in the two rooms and down the hall way is the work area. In the day care section of the building there is a lot of clients that are retarded most are able bodied and need some guardians from the staff people. There are also disable people that are in wheelchairs that also go to day care. I just work down the hall way with the other able bodied clients. Two works at that program would take a ladys helmet from her and one client would even take my helmet for no reason most of the time I would get mad at her for taking my helmet like that with out even asking me either. I mean that is my helmet I need it she dont. Back at the McLaughlin house when I would walk around with my helmet on my head a head injured guy would look at my helmet and says it his when it is my helmet and I stuck all of the stickers there he didnt. Back in the year of two thousand my sister brought me a black baseball helmet that I wear on my head every day now but just when I am walking. A few days when I needed things like a tube of tooth past or a new camera or even a bottle of mouth wash I would go across the street in my wheelchair or I would wheel out to the garage and then I would get on my motor scooter. Then I would drive all of the way to CVS of coarse a staff person pushes me in my wheelchair over or a staff person would go with me when ever I have my motor scooter. The people that live here at the McLaughlin house with me have their family over. Like Debbie have her family over here and Tony would have his family over and Clare would have her family over, and Judi would have her family over, and Bruce would have his two brothers over, even my family would come over like on the week ends and talk with me. Or we would go out and eat at a restaurant or I would even go over my sisters house. On every Wednesday in the summer of two-thousand and two all of the people here including me and some of the staff people would load in the van and then go to a place called Ipswich river park where there were a live band and every body there could buy food too like a hot dogs, chickens, hamburgers, corn on the cob and other stuff to eat like that. A month later it was July and my mother had to get my clothes all packed up in a suit case. She had to pack enough of my clothe and she packed my tooth brush and tooth paste and deodorants soap too so that I could go to camp for a month and the name of the camp was called camp Jabberwocky. Camp Jabberwocky is in Martha's Vineyard. So my sister husband drove to the McLaughlin house to pick me up and then my sister husband would drive me all of the way down to the Cape. A few hours later when I was at the Cape I had to take a boat called a fairy all of the way out to a big Island called Marthas Vineyard. At camp Jabberwocky I had so, so, much fun like I would go to do a few paintings for a few days and other days I worked with making stuff with clay in the big art and craft cabin that they had there. And every day when it was very, very, hot at camp all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor would have our bathing suit on and then get all seated on the big long red bus to go swimming at a state beach. A half of an hour later when we were there we would all get out of the great big long red bus and then we all would walk down a great big long board walk to the beach and I had to walk on the board walk too holding on to my four prong cane of coarse. When we all were on the beach almost every body went swimming in the water including me and some laid down on their towel on the sandy beach including me and some campers would sit on a few launch chairs and some disabled campers would even sit in their own wheel chair that they took with them to the beach that dont have any balance. But some days the water would be so, so, choppy that I wouldnt go swimming. Some days at the state beach a few people at the camp including me would even go wind surfing on specialize wind surfing board that would assist the disabled people including me. Like the people that taught wind surfing would have one surf board at the top nailed to two surf boards at the bottom and there would be one specialized surf board with a chair attach to it and one specialized surf board that had a walker attach to it and I had a great time wind surfing and the others guys did too. If the two specialized wind surfing board were used by other disabled campers others could even go canoeing on three canoe boats. Others days I had to dress in long paints to go horse back riding. So I had to ride to horse back riding in the blue van and one of the counselors would drive me and a few campers and other counselors there. A few minutes later when we all were at the barn where the horses were. Each camper had a turn horse back riding including me. While I were waiting for my turn I had walked holding on to my four prong cane to pat all of the horses that was in there stalls and I had even walked up stairs and it was very big up stairs too. A few days when I had went horse back riding I had to bring my bathing suit too. Because I had to go to the state beach swimming with the rest of the campers and their counselors. at the barn where all of the horses were even some counselors went horse back riding too. A few hours later we all got in the little blue van and then we rode back to camp Jabberwocky to eat lunch in the dining room there. After all of the campers and their counselors ate their lunches including me and my counselor we all had went to the recreation hall for music. There would be a certain skit that had to be perform before we could put on a play called Hair which wasnt until the end of camp so every bodies family member could see the final performance including my family too. On the fourth of July at camp Jabberwocky every body at that camp had put on a parade dress in costumes and driving a truck decorated to look like a flying dragon and I had to hold on to the left wing of the flying dragon. When I went around the corner the left wing had later broke off so I had to carry that one wing all through the rest of the parade. On every Sunday all of the campers and their counselors including me and my counselor got up in our cabins and got dress to go to the dining room for breakfast. After everyone had breakfast including me we all got in the big long bus to go to church. The church building was very big and beautiful inside too. After the mass every body in the church including me and all of the campers and their counselors had a little gathering with cheese, crackers, meat balls salami some cookies and a few other snacks to eat and I met and talked with some people too. A half of an hour later everybody had left the church building including me. There were a day that everybody at the camp including me would get in the great big large red van and then we all would ride to a guy call Ernie's Bocks yard and he had a very, very big yard and he lives next to his own beach too. A hour later when our bus had arrived at his house a lot of people were there talking to one another and eating good food too. There were people that went swimming and there were even a guy that were playing the synthesizer and some people could sing if they want to including me. All of the people that was at camp Jabberwocky that went to the cook out at Ernies Bocks place for a day every summer. But July two-thousand and two was my second summer at Ernie Bocks place and I loved it and I had fun too. At the end of camp all of the campers had to pack up all their luggage's and some of the disabled campers including me were pushed in our wheelchairs by a counselor to where the fairy ship dock and we would ride the fairy back to the main land. When I was off of the fairy my sister and brother in-law took all of my luggages and packed them in their white jeep and then they took me home to my house in North Reading. On every Tuesday now I go up to North Andover to go swimming at a hospital building called Hogan regional center. But before I go two persons from a church called Saint Theresas parish name Walter and Donna would come over to the McLaughlin house to say some prayers with all of the people here including me. That Tuesday night a lady name Helen would come over here to teach us what the bible say and we also would sing some spiritual songs too. One day I was just about to use my computer until the telephone rang and I thought that it were going to be my sister Maria or my friend Timmy and it was a lady that heard that I was a good painter. So a few weeks later it was September twentieth two-thousand and two so I had Suzann help me put different prices on my paintings and I had even staid home the day before to have her put different prices on them. Then that Friday a guy named Jean had pushed me out to the big van and he went to get another guy too but he almost made me later for the other van. But when the kid came out to get loaded on the van me, the kid, and the guy name Jean all rode to a house in Woburn that was called the Warren house and that house also have people that had sustain head-injuries and some of the people that live there are in manual wheelchairs and some are even in electric wheelchairs and that mean that a few of those people cant do nothing for them self like they cant feed themselves cant brush their own hair or teeth and they had to be helped from a Personal Care Attended. So I got on the other van to go to the bayside expo center to sell most of my paintings. I went to the bayside expo center for three days Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and they even gave me three booth. Well a guy came with me from the Warren house in Woburn to sell some of his painting but I brought a lot of my paintings with me so I had two booth and a long table to keep all of my paintings on I even kept them in side the bayside expo center building at my booths when I went home to my house. Because I knew that I would be back to sell my paintings more. At the bayside expo center there were a few people selling three and four wheel motor scooters, there were a few people selling specialize telephones to help the disabled and great big three wheels tricycles and showing off other things that would assist the disabled people too. Every thing was great at the bayside expo center and there were a lot of people looking at different things too and I had even sold some of my paintings too and my friend Timmy had picked me up and then he drove me to his mothers house who live in Revere. An hour later when Timmy and I had arrived at his mothers house we still had a big box with the rest of my acrylics paintings that didnt sell. So we showed Tommie's mother my paintings and was she impress on how well I had painted too. We staid there a minute. So we had watched his television for a little bit and Timmy even gave me a bowl of ice cream to eat. Then a hour past and Timmy drove me home to my house in North Reading. A few month later I got to take a air plane ride to England and I had flown out on American air lines. So my sister had to drive to my house and pack my suit case and bring me out to the car and my suitcase too. Then when the suit case was in my sisters jeep she had drove me to the air port and at the air port I flown on American air line. On American airline all of the passengers including me had our own built in little Televisions with our own remote control built on our little tables that were attach to our seat on the air plane and we even got served lunch and dinner too. The air plane flight was a whole six hours. So I slept for an hour and I had watched some television for a while when I ate of coarse. Six hours later I was in England and boy did I have fun I stayed at a guy name Patrick's house for a whole week. When I had got there on Sunday morning it rained. But me and Patrick and his friend named Eddy we had went out for coffee. But when I had tried to pay for my coffee I couldnt I had to get some English pounds. So my friend Patrick got me some English pounds from my twenty United States dollar. On Monday me and Patrick rode on a giant ferries wheel called the London eye. Then after the ride we went to take a ride on a big boat down a river. On Tuesday we went to tour Buckingham Palace on Wednesday we went to the museum of natural history and we saw a lot of dinosaur skeletons and I got a poster of the solar system. On Thursday we went to a wax museum and I had my picture take with some wax dummies and then we had went to a few Pubs with his friends and I had met three beautiful ladies there. On Friday me and Patrick and his sister Caroline went to see the changing of the guards and on Saturday we all went to see a movie about T-rex it was a great movie too. But every day he had to push me in my wheel chair at these places which I didnt mine but I got to walk with my four pong cane in Patrick and Caroline house and at a Pub too. On Sunday morning I went on America air lines back to Boston to go to a family Christmas party that was in Medford at the sons of Italy hall and the stewardess on the air plane was so kind to me that they had gave me a whole bag of chocolate candy bars because I had told them that I was going to a Christmas party at six oclock. When I had got off of the plane and pushed in my wheelchair by a guy that works there. My mother had met me at the air port and we had waited for my sister to pick us up she was with her husband and their two kids and then we all had rode to the Christmas party at a hall in Medford called the sons of Italy. All of my aunts and uncles were there and my cousins and their kids too we all had a great time to and I had past out all of my chocolate candy bars and we ate good food and sang Christmas songs too and all of the children opened their presents from Santa claws their self and every body there had a great time including me too. On Christmas eve me, my sister and her husband and their two little kids rode down to my sisters husband father house. So I watched his Television for a little bit. But a half of an hour later my mother and father and my aunt walked in the door. We all were talking to each other and we had good food too. Later I walked out side to my sisters jeep and then my sisters husband drove me to their house in Stone Ham and then I had went to bed. The next morning was Christmas so all of my sisters kids got to open up all of their presents Including me. Later on in the day I had walked out side holding on to my four prong cane to my sisters white jeep and then when I was in the white jeep my sister had drove me home and on that day it was snowing too. At my program now all of the clients there is bagging fifty white plastic bowl including me. But some of the clients is still counting coat hangers and putting them on the coat hangers rack which I just might have to go back to. When we get finish bagging the Styrofoam bowls but I hope not. At Class incorporated there are a few clients that work there with a big bad attitude problem but I dont mine as long as I am very busy that is what count. On Monday May fifth 2003 at my work place they had me counting fifty Styrofoam plates and I had to put them in a big plastic bag and I had done that job all last week too. I do hope that we stay with the job because I really like it too. And they let me walk in the building there every day and I walk much, much, better with the leg brace on my right leg that I remember to put on every morning. On Saturday March eight 2003 my sister had drove to my house in North Reading to pick me up and then she drove me to a Hotel in Boston where I have met the other people that went to camp Jabberwocky with me. So some of the people from camp Jabberwocky had sang in a chores including me but it was practice at first. Then me and my sister had went out to the jeep and then my sister had drove me to her tuxedo shop to dress in a tuxedo and then later she had drove me back to her house so that she could go in to her house and get dress in her tuxedo suit. Then when her husband came back with a gallon of milk my sister had ran out side to get in her jeep and then me and my sister had rode back to the Hotel that was in Boston in our tuxedo suits. A hour later when we were there my sister had to bring me in my wheelchair to the hotel. Inside the hotel we had to take the elevator up stairs where I were going to sing in the chorus with the other people that I had went to camp Jabberwocky with and some of them were in wheelchairs too. But I had to walk up on the stage by using my four prong cane. After every body that went to camp Jabberwocky including me had sang in the chorus we all had got off of the stage. Then later every body ate good food including me and my sister Maria. Later every body there were dancing including me and my sister and I danced with a few beautiful ladies too. Later it was eleven at night so I had to sit back in my wheelchair and my sister had to push me out to her white jeep and my sister had drove me to her house to sleep and my sisters husband drove me back home to my house in North Reading at twelve thirty in the afternoon. On March thirty-first through April second me, Judy, Laurie, and a guy in a electric wheelchair by the name of Earl we all had went to Saint Theresa parish to say the rosary. The rosary is when a person start by saying the hail Mary and then all of the people in the church including me say the rest of the hail Mary. But every body had to say the hail Mary five times. A few minutes later every one in the church went to their own house. On Wednesday night at five-thirty we had went for Mass and after Mass was a party with a lot of people talking , eating and drinking too. There was cheese and crackers and salary, carrots, and green and red pepper slices and fruit slices and other goodies to eat and tea and coffee to drink too. Later we all had gone back home and went to our own room to bed. On Friday April eighteen 2003 two ladies that work at the McLaughlin took me and three other disable people to saint Theresa parish church out in the van. When we had all arrived there we all had to get out of the van and then we all had went in to the church. In the church I had just transferred from my wheelchair to a sit on a big long bench that was in the church. And as I were sitting down I had looked on the wall to my right and I did not see the crucible on the wall and I had said to a lady where is the crucible and she had said to me that she do not know. So after all of the people that were in the church including me had said some prayers with the priests and the alter boys and girls and sang a few spiritual songs. Then it looked to me like the priests and all of the alter boys and girls was leaving the church. But they had all came back in to church this time a guy was holding on to the crucible and when he and the other priests and the alter boys and girls lied the crucible on the alter step all of the people in church got up from the big long benches and then they all had walked over to the alter and then they would bend down to kiss the statue of Jesus feet and two people had walked me up to the alter to kiss his hand that was a wonderful experience for me. A few minutes later me and the four disable people went back to the McLaughlin house on the van. So when we rode out to the van in our wheelchairs Rosanna a nurse brought us up on the lift of the van that was out side of the church to hook our wheels on the van floor where the hooks was and then we all rode home. When we got to our house I went in after my wheels were unhooked and then when I took the lift down I had wheeled in to the house to go in my room to bed. Every Friday afternoon at six-thirty all of the disable people including me go over to the Warren house that is in Woburn. If the van could not hold eight disable people in wheelchairs then a few disable people would have to stay back at the McLaughlin house. Now on every Fridays afternoon at four or five oclock I would just call my sister on my telephone to ask her if I could go to work with her on Saturdays. When she comes to pick me up to work with her she did not mined if I walk with my four prong cane in her tuxedo shop of course I had already had my leg brace on my right leg. So I had said to my sister that I had been walking so good with it on and that is true too. Of course she put me right too work which I did not mined one bit. But when I had to go to the bath room she would let me walk over to the bath room and she did not mined that I walked holding on to my four prong cane by myself which I were really, really, careful when I was walking by myself too. Of course I would walk right back to my seat to go back to work. All of the time it were so busy in the tuxedo shop with people going in to the tuxedo store to be measured and fitted for their tuxedo suits and goons too . Later at four thirty my sister walks with me out to the white jeep and then she would drive me back home to North Reading. On may nineteen at my work place called class incorporated I had went in to the mens room by my self. So a worker saw me and then she had me stay in my wheelchair for two days and I were kind of sad at first but as the day went by I didnt mined. On Thursday May twenty-two on the year 2003 there were a great big banquet here at the McLaughlin house with good foods to eat and dessert too. The people from the Warren house that is in Woburn would ride over here too and there were a big meeting too. A few people were talking about how to raise more money so that they could build other houses like the one that they had built in North Reading and in Woburn too. At my program class incorporated where I work there is a few clients that will not mine their own businesses and they will get on your nerves too. Like when you are working on counting fifty Styrofoam plate or bowls or some thing else a client might interrupt my train of thought which that would really bug you. On Sunday June first at nine thirty in the morning I had woke up from my bed and I had walked in to the bath room to take a shower like I do every morning. When I had got in to the bath room I had shut the door. I started to get ready for my shower when I had bent down an I had a pain going up my back. So I yelled and screamed as loud as I could. Later two female nurses came in to my room to help me to get dress. Later after lunch I had decide to go to Winchester hospital to have a x-ray taking on my back. Later another ambulance company had drove me back home to my house that was in North Reading. On Saturday June the twenty-seventh 2003 my sister had her husband in her white jeep and she drove her jeep to my house to pick me up and to take my luggages too and then she drove me all the way down to the Cape and I got on a great big ship with all of the other people that were going to Marthas Vineyard to a camp called camp Jabberwocky. A few hours later right when I have got there I had done some paintings and some sculpting with clay that you heat in a kilm and I dress as Romeo for a parade that all of the people from camp had. The days that it was hot out side me and every body went swimming at a state beach. Also every Monday there would be some guys drumming at the beach. So all of the campers and counselors had a cook-out at the beach and then they dance and swam at the beach too including me I had also sang in a concert there too. I had spent four whole weeks there then I had came back home on July twenty-sixth. But there is always next year of course until I go back to camp again. On September the sixteen there were dinner banquet here at the McLaughlin house and there was about fifteen people here including me and my parents we at a lot of good foods and drank coffee too. A doctor talked too every body here including me and my parents out in the den where the television is. So every body here got a lot of chairs to sit down to here the doctor talk about stress and loneliness. Later he had ask if any body had any questions so I raised my hand then I had told the doctor about how I had got handicap and how my brother and sister could cross the street to play with their friends and I couldnt. But when I came home to my house from school I could walk and play in my yard or walk around the block if I wanted too or I could just watch television in my house. I had remembered when I were walking by pushing a great big spool when me and my family had the house up in New Hampshire right across from Attatash mountain and raking the leaves with my four prong cane. A half of an hour later the meeting had ended so all of the visitors had went to their own houses including my parents too. But all that night I were walking with my four prong cane because my parents had let me and I loved have them there too. You know a serious injury could happen to you in a blink of an eye and you would not know what had hit you. Like a great big title wave that just knocked you to the ground a minute when your back is turned. You could fall down some stairs and hit your head really, really, hard. Or you could get hit by a car or a truck. Or you could hit your head really, really, hard diving in to a swimming pool. A fall that could injure you permanently that there is no way to get back to the way you use to be. The thing is avoiding from ever getting in a serious injury in the first place. Dont you wish that there was a time machine so that you could go back to when the accident had ever happen and doing something differently so that you would never had gotten in the accident in the first place. But you can not go back the thing to do is to do as many things with the ability you have left and think hard about what you are doing too. Like wearing a seat belt in a moving vehicle and wearing helmets on bikes and horses. Dont drink alcohol when driving follow the speed limit, don't drive drunk, look both ways when crossing the street. Little things like that could save your life and that is true too. your life is so precious dont waste it. By doing some thing foolishly or that you are going to regret later. Take it from a guy that knows all to well and that is true too. I wish that I could go back in time to when my very bad car accident happened and may be doing something differently like playing or sleeping in my yard or playing in my house. But I cant. So I has to do all that I can do to get back on my feet again like walking with a four prong cane and just doing the very best I can do to avoid from getting a next head injury or worst.

3/21/01 One day on the weekend there was only one staff person on duty. So I heard that one staff were at her house taking care of her sister because a guy
driving drunk hit them with his car and her boyfriend died then I felt sad I think that they need to make the drunk driving laws much, much, stricture. if a person is consuming too much alcohol beverages and want to drive just take the keys and have the guy vehicle toed away and  the drunk drive should get a lot of years in jail and dont take any soft stories like I am ok nothing is going to happen to me when that is a great big lie. I thing people that drink too many alcoholic beverages do not think of the important organ that control their movement and that is your brain If your brain gets damage then a certain part of your body is not going to work any more and that is very, very, true. I learned when you drink alcoholic beverages the alcohol goes straight to your blood stream gets turned in your stomach then back up your blood stream and then kills brain cells and you would not see straight you would not talk clear either  and you could in fact kill another person. Lets put it this way do you want to be alive or six feet under ground.  There is nothing wrong with having a little bit of alcohol.  But, they say too much of anything is not good for you.

So please, please, be careful and make the right choices. But not the wrong choices and live a long and healthy life.

May 15th...

On Tuesday May twelfth 2004 it was after lunch. So I had walked down the hall way and as I was just getting ready too work I was accuse of some thing that I did not do so I yelled at this person. Then I got yelled at to go in the other room. So I were walking over there and then I had went in to sit down. So when I had told this person what really had happen that person had went back to talk to the other person about what had happen. That other person was mad at me I could here her walking up the hall way and this person had just opened the door I thought that the person was just coming after me until that person was stopped by three people and there were a great big fight in the hall way I could hear all of the struggling in the hall way even though the door were closed They even had to call the police on this person and the ambulance truck came too. When they were taking this person to the hospital the person stilled argued. So they had to take the person in hand cuffs. Later I had walked out of the other room and I had walked in to the work shop to sit on a chair. But some one else accused me of yelling at her and I had to be put in another room alone that was not fair and not right either they should had let me have a chance to tell them my side of the story wouldnt you say. It is like one time in the year of 2001 at a place that I use to go to. I were busy working and this other guy sat right next to me. So he were sitting in a chair and he made these wearied faces right at me and he call me retarded too. I got so, so, mad at him for saying that to me that I yelled at him at the same time I was pounding the table with my fist. All of the people who worked in the building could hear me yelling at this guy that bothered me including making faces at me and calling me retarded too that is not right not in a work place like that and I did not do nothing to him. I just went to work that is all. And he could walk alone I can not walk alone. Here at the McLaughlin house people that live here with me they were older when they had got their disability like in their twenties or forties. I grow up being with my disability from 2 in a half year old they didnt. Thank God that I had one arm and one leg on the right side of my body that was stronger then my other side of my body and that I could use too. That is why I could still walk with a for prong cane today. This summer. Every body at the McLaughlin house here including me in North reading and all of the people that live in the Warren house that is in Woburn would go to see some concert like we did the summer of 2003. At the concerts that we will go to this summer I would probably take my camera to take a few picture at the concerts. I like taking pictures because I could look at a picture and say I could remember that

Do you know that we should be very, very, concern about the bad kinds of drugs in the United States and smoking too. And I have to agree that something should be down about them. Now I am a handicap person that goes to work every day and I use to have a care taker. But the last three care takers were smoking pot or some other drugs and were drunk too. What if that disable person have a really bad fall and wines up in the hospital do to the bad fall but the care taker was not at your home to help that disable person up. What if that able body person become a disable bodied person? I guess some people do not know the consequences of their action especially when they are working for you. I went to live at the McLaughlin house here in North Reading on the year of 2001 and this house have good staff people here too. But it have seven other very disable people that live here. But one time there was a person that worked here except she had to stay home because her sister had been hit by a drunken driver and the drunk driver did not get no time in jail which is wrong and the judge that would not send that drunk driver to jail should hold his or her head in shame he should had spent a lot of time in jail to think of the very, very, bad damage he did and that drunk driver had killed a person too.

You know that if you plant more trees you are really adding some more oxygen in to the air it is true too. Because trees take in carbine dioxide and give off oxygen. Plus trees provide shade from the hot sun. We also get medicines from the leaves of trees and plants too. That is why trees and plants are so very, very, important to our planet So plant a tree and a plant and add some more oxygen in to the air. so please will you do something about this problem thank you.