I just watched a touching episode of Extreme Home Makeover. The show gets me teary eyed each time I watch it. The Teas Family runs the Barnabas camp for disable kids. It is an amazing story of giving. It reminded me of when I was in sixth grade. There was a girl in my class, whose name was Suzy. She had the bad luck of being born with Muscular Dystrophy and Cerebal Palsy. I grew up in the seventies and mainstreaming kids was a new idea. She spent part of the day in our classroom and part in the special ed room. Each day our teacher would ask for a volunteer to help with Suzy's phys ed. We would skip our own phy ed class and stay and do something with Suzy. Suzy made a lasting impression on me. She never complained and laughed a lot during our time together. I heard she went through school along with her class all the way through high school. I moved away in seventh grade and lost touch. I ran into an old classmate a few years ago. They said that Suzy had gone to prom and was elected as prom queen. It wasn't a "Carrie" sick joke either. Suzy had just made such a lasting impact on her classmates they wanted to thank her some way. She graduated with them too.
I like a lot of people get very self centered worrying "whoa is me!" It's so easy to forget about the real challenges other people face. It was obvious that the experience at the camp really had an impact on the design crew. Suzy had a positive effect on me. The world need more people like the Teas and Suzy. It would be a better place.
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