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From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ROLE MODELS
Summary: Rehab or die!
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Date: 30 May 90 14:47:00 GMT
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Index Number: 8520

In article <11935@bunker.UUCP>, Douglas.Zachary@p0.f10.n137.z1.fidonet.org
(Douglas Zachary) writes:
> Index Number: 8378

> >believe in rehabilitation even pushed during the first 5 - 10 months 
> >after the disabling injury. There are several reasons I believe in it. 
> >Inactivity breeds depression, accomplishment breeds hope and hope can 
> >lead to productivity, pride and self worth. A person with a similar 
> >disability that has been living with it for a greater length of time 
> >can teach a newly disabled person things that could have taken years 
> >to discover.

Absolutely right!   I was in rehab before I woke from the coma!  Of course,
that wasn't my doing, my Doctors and parents sent me to one of the best
rehabs in the country!

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Militant Handicapped Survivor!
	Cliff Stevens	MT1E228  att!cbnewsj!ncas  (201)957-3902