---- Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We got home with our new daughter in June and she hails from Kunming
> > China. She turns 4 next month. >
> > Charlotte was born with a right leg and foot deformity and had surgery
> > late in November to amputate her foot so that she could be fitted with a
> > prosthesis below the knee to even her leg lengths out -- she had about a
> > 3-4" discrepency between them.. She's doing great on her new leg --
> > walking without a limp, running, climbing, standing tall!
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> How very cool! Is she a Shiner's Hospital patient? I'll bet she's
> gorgeous - can't wait for pictures.
>
> We are also an adoptive family. We have three birth children - all grown up
> with families of their own. Our first two adopted sons came over in 1975 or
> maybe it was 1976 in Operation Babylift from Viet Nam. They were 8 and 13.
> Many years later, after the first five had grown up and left home, we
> started over again and adoped Brenda in Mexico, Ronnie (African American) in
> the US, Stephanie (blue-eyed blond) in the US and took Jenny (El
> Salvadoran/Mexican) also from the US as a permanent foster child. All four
> of the home kids have cerebral palsy. We have spent lots of time with the
> good folks at Shriner's. They are now 22, 15, 14 and 19 but only Stephanie
> will ever be able to live independently.
>
> With 9 kids, I sometimes tell people there's a reason I took up distance
> riding.
>
> Nancy
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> Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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