Thursday, April 07, 2022
Do you know what there are a lot of people out there? That do not know about disabilities or head injuries either. Now take me my name George Russo, and I were born in Tewksbury, when I was 2 in a half years old, I was playing in a neighbor's yard and a guy that was hurrying to his house to feed his eight kids didn't see me playing there and then had drove his car real hard in to the back of my head and I had was drag under the rear bumper and I was through seventy two feet into an oak tree. An ambulance had to drive me to the hospital where I was in a coma for eight weeks. My parents had taken me to our house in Tewkesbury where I had saw something funny, so I had laughed and that surprised my mother. Even when she had called the doctor on our telephone and the doctor didn't believe her, and he had thought that I was dead, but I had woken up. Because I had saw our babysitter at that time back in the year of nineteen sixty-nine that were bouncing a ball off of my brother's head, so I had started to laugh. But in the nineteen seventies me, my mother and father had moved into a house in Medford, I was the only one in my family that had to grow up with my right arm and my right leg partially paralyzed. I even had to go to a different school. Then my brother and my sister every day Thay walked to school. Because their school were right around the corner from my house in Medford. But I had to go to a school way out in Boston called the Coton school the Coton school had two elevators one up the big, long hallway and one down the big, long hallway and a driver had to drive a van to my house every day to pick me up. Because I had to go to school in a wheelchair every day because of my disability and I had to stay seated in my wheelchair too. But there were some people that went there that didn't have a disability and some people did have a disability. A person that did not have a disability pushed me in my wheelchair. lot of people in the school without a disability. So, one of them had to push me in my wheelchair My left side of my body is very, very, strong and they had got even stronger through the years. When I am sitting in my wheelchair, I fasten my seat belt around my Wiest and I could pull my wheelchair with my very, very, strong left foot. When my left foot pulls me in my wheelchairs. then that would automatically get my right leg moving A lot of people do not know what I go through day, after day, and night after night to help myself. Now when I am asking people to help me to pull up my pants. I would say ok you would help me to pull up my right side and then I will pull up my left side. Because I could grab the upper half of my pants, but I would have to have help with the right. Most all 0f the time I would be there struggling to bend my right leg to push myself up my bed I would try, and I would try and most of the time I could do it if I put some effort into it by pulling with my head too. Back in the year of 2003, I were asked by a female staff person if I would want to talk to people in a drug and alcohol meeting and I had said ok. So then the female staff person said to me ok first you would have to computer type a story about how did you get into your very, very, bad head-injury accident in the first place. So then I would type what I would remember about my head-injury accident and I would get help too. Then later at three o'clock P.M a female staff person that were working at the McLaughlin, house read my story that I had typed on my computer. Then she had gave me a website, and the female staff person named Nancy Marie, she had transfer my story on my website. When I want to type more story she had gave me a web journal. So when I do arrive back in my bedroom, from my program I could just wheel up and into my computer desk. Then I would turn on my computer with my strong left hand. Then I would type on my web journal. So my web address is http://Georgie8ma.tripod.com My right arm, hand, leg and foot is weak and my left arm, left hand, left leg and left foot is really, really strong. But when I walk with my hemi walk at night for a long time my right leg would be so tired. Then I will fall. But I can't get any one to see that. I had been partially paralyzed from back when I were 2 in a half year old and it were very, very, hard for me. Because I was the only one in my family that grew up as a partially paralyze individual. When we use to ride up to New Hampshire in the winter month my mother, my father, my sister, and my brother would all walk over to Attitash mounting to go skiing but me I would had to stay in the house to was across from Attitash mounting and watch the television. Because of my disability I couldn't go skiing and I wasn't going to risk of slipping on the snow and the ice that was outside. And there were a whole lot of snow every where you looked. Because I couldn't use my right hand to grab the ski pol because my right hand was still very, very weak and it won't grab the ski pole and my right foot would collapses if I take a step on the snowy Ice on the ground outside. Then I would in fact take a very, very, bad fall and I would in fact Wack my head on the Icy ground too, Which I didn't want to do.. So when me and my family rode up to New Hampshire, in the winter month and there were a lot of snow on the ground. I would just stay in the house and I would sit in the pretty dark brown recliner chair and I would watch the television and walk around the house with my four prong cane and play with my toys to in the house. Because that is all I could do in the winter months on Sunday. afternoon we would get ready to ride back to our house in Medford, Because a van driver was going to the house the next day to pick me up and to drive me to the cotton school in Boston. at the time when I had went there. But I would keep riding home to my house in Medford, thirty-eight Dexter street when I had arrived to my house all that I could do was staying in the house and watch my television and walking around my house with my four prong cane and I would walk in my yard with my four prong cane and some days I would play with my toys at the time. But when I had went to school in Canton called the Canton Massachusetts school I had went there in the year of nine-teen eighty-five and I would live in a cottage the whole week. But I would only go home on Friday, and staying home on the weekend until I had to ride in a van back to school on Sunday, afternoon and I would have different activity in the great big very long gym there too.
Like some days it would be track and fields, so I would have to say back at the great big very, very wide school sitting in my big blue wheelchair bit it would be a one hand drive wheelchair that mean that the left side of the wheelchair would be there wheels the two wheels makes the wheelchair go left or right and on wheel makes the wheelchair go straight. But the right side of the wheelchair would be only one big wheel. So that I could wheel my wheelchair faster with only my one strong hand, So at the school I would have to wheel around the floor for a while with the other people that were in track and fields too. Some days in track and field at the great big long very, very, wide school I would wheel right past the other kids that was also race around the school floor too some were able to walk so they would run around the school floor and some were in wheelchairs like me so we would try to wheel very fast around the school floor. Because I had one a one very, very, strong and powerful arm I could wheel faster with the one hand drive wheelchair. The other days I would go swimming in way back of the gym were the great big very, very, long Olympics size swimming pool was. Some days I would have Rec News so I would write what I had saw on the News that morning. And somedays I would go bowling or I would lift some weights in the weight room that was also in the great big huge very long gym. So every day and night there would be a different activity for me to do when I was still going to Canton Massachusetts hospital school
