Tonight I was speaking with some parents about their son Moshe, who had the same surgery Byron had but is still not allowed by the hospital to use anything but a wheel chair.
I saw him walk the other day and he walks quite well, but he still has far to go. Moshe's mom told me that he walked and ran before the surgery, but just on his toes. I said to her that it must be so hard for Moshe to be confined to a wheel chair here, but that I had noticed that he seems perfectly ok with it. Then she said something interesting. She said that here in Blythedale, everyone is in a wheelchair, so it's the normal way to be.
When Byron goes to recreation, he stays in his wheelchair the entire time, even though he's perfectly free to walk. At Blythedale you stay in a wheelchair if you wan to fit in, to be "normal".
What a strange and wonderful thing that is.
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