CP is a trauma to the brain, usually at birth, that basically affects motor skills. The severity of the CP depends on how much brain damaged occurred during the trauma. It could be as slight as a limp to living in a completely vegetative state. Me. I am lucky! I cannot walk, so use a motorized wheelchair. I look drunk because of my involuntary movements (it comes in handy at times when I really am drunk!) My speech sounds like a 45 rpm record (remember those?!) being played at 33 1/3.

Other than that I'm pretty normal, whatever that is? I was spared my intelligence, which only 40% of those affected with CP can say. For that, I'm grateful! I serve the community as Secretary of the local Lions Club. My term is completed in June 2006, but I'll remain on the Board in the position of Editor for the newsletter.

I have had the privilege to work with students with disabilities as a teacher's assistant, teaching the 3 R's and bit of independence in Fifty Lakes, MN. That experience allowed me to pursue the position of Transition Coordinator with the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living. During that period in my life I wrote several independent living skills teaching manuals for the St. Paul Dept. of Education. I also was awarded the very first Governor's Victory Award in Minnesota for overcoming disability. Winners from each State received their award at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. 

I left the big City of Minneapolis behind to escape a hectic lifestyle and am now run an independent greeting card business. I created hundreds of cards on my computer, frequently displaying at local bazaars and town celebrations, trying to make my fortune! After 2 years with the ever increasing expense of supplies and the intensive labor involved that I couldn’t physically do unassisted, my dream of helping people communicate (and yearly vacations!) took a back seat. Now, with Send A Card, those dreams are alive again!

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Favorite Quote: “...if all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon gain all the rest.” --Daniel Webster

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