A Bsti's Story
Hi all,
Well, if you have spent any time with Chester since he has know me, you would have surely heard the story of his 'handicapped' act that he has done to torture me. He started this in November of 1996, I remember the date clearly... Well not the date, but the month and year. What he did was to start dragging one leg, twist his body, pull his arms up in a foreshortened way, and chase after me as if I was running away from him. He would call out after me, "Marwyn, why u wun away, I wuv u." Now, it has to be understood that I have a handicapped brother, and when he first pulled this stunt, I was really torn in two different directions. One was that you don't make fun of people who are handicapped... I had seen too much suffering in that regard. But the other was that it was really funny. So it did make me want to run away from him, and so he would chase after me. And he realized that he was pushing some really easy buttons and getting a grand reaction out of me.
Now the first time he did this was up at Wildwood, away from people who did not know him and his bsti's. But then he started doing this walking down the streets of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley... Or anywhere else where he might catch me off guard. So we come to today. I arrived this morning and he wanted to go out onto the roof garden they have at the hospital. It was really nice. And just as I had taken a big drink of my latte (which I was sharing with him) he goes into his handicapped act again! Sitting there in the wheelchair! And I nearly blew a latte out my nose. I think we laughed for five minutes, 3 of those with me trying to stop long enough to swallow what was in my mouth.
So I just want to let you know that he is getting back to his old self in a lot of ways. He worked really hard today, and laughed really hard too!
Love to all, Marilyn
Well, if you have spent any time with Chester since he has know me, you would have surely heard the story of his 'handicapped' act that he has done to torture me. He started this in November of 1996, I remember the date clearly... Well not the date, but the month and year. What he did was to start dragging one leg, twist his body, pull his arms up in a foreshortened way, and chase after me as if I was running away from him. He would call out after me, "Marwyn, why u wun away, I wuv u." Now, it has to be understood that I have a handicapped brother, and when he first pulled this stunt, I was really torn in two different directions. One was that you don't make fun of people who are handicapped... I had seen too much suffering in that regard. But the other was that it was really funny. So it did make me want to run away from him, and so he would chase after me. And he realized that he was pushing some really easy buttons and getting a grand reaction out of me.
Now the first time he did this was up at Wildwood, away from people who did not know him and his bsti's. But then he started doing this walking down the streets of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley... Or anywhere else where he might catch me off guard. So we come to today. I arrived this morning and he wanted to go out onto the roof garden they have at the hospital. It was really nice. And just as I had taken a big drink of my latte (which I was sharing with him) he goes into his handicapped act again! Sitting there in the wheelchair! And I nearly blew a latte out my nose. I think we laughed for five minutes, 3 of those with me trying to stop long enough to swallow what was in my mouth.
So I just want to let you know that he is getting back to his old self in a lot of ways. He worked really hard today, and laughed really hard too!
Love to all, Marilyn
posted by Marilyn at 9:24 PM
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