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Old 05-20-2008, 01:55 PM
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My youngest brother fell when he was just about 2 years old and hit his head on a rock and that caused him a lot of misery. Then when I came home from Korea, they called me to come in and sent me home because he had lost his eyesight completely and a little later they had to take him to San Francisco and put a shunt in his brain. He was blind for about 8 years before the shunt failed and he passed away. But he was by far the most intelligent one of our family and he learned how to deal with his handicaps very fast. He could count change ok, but the bills were not something that he could do by feel. So I have been around handicapped people quite a bit as I spent as much time as I could with him and at the school where they had every type of handicapped kid it seemed. And for the most part, they handled it a great deal better than I could have. I am not sure about changing the money as look at what it would have cost to change the penny and nickle over and I never saw any person that came to the school try to cheat one of the kids.

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