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As we all know, traveling can be difficult if you have a BPI. Recently my husband and I took a trip from our home near Cleveland to Phoenix and Dallas. A breakfast buffet was included at each hotel.

On our first morning in Phoenix, I was aware that my husband was helping someone get his breakfast, but I was too busy getting my own breakfast to turn and look. After I had gotten my breakfast together, and sat down at a table, I took the time to look around the room. There was my husband getting his own breakfast, and there was the young man he'd just left, starting to eat his breakfast. This man had no hands. While I wondered how he functioned without hands, I couldn't watch him eat his breakfast. That would have been rude. All I could do was eat my own breakfast and think, "There but for the grace of G-d go I."

I never saw that man again after that morning, but I don't think that I'll ever forget him. He certainly made me stop and think.

Joanie

Good for John!!
Say hello.

Carolyn J

Joanie

When I was young and having a bad day my Granny always reminded me that there was and would always be someone less fortunate then myself (so to get over myself).

What a wonderful Husband you have.

Tina

Joanie

When I was young and having a bad day my Granny always reminded me that there was and would always be someone less fortunate then myself (so to get over myself).

What a wonderful Husband you have.

Tina

Joanie and TinaT,
My Mom just said , "Forget about it". I learned to "stuff" & not talk about anything(very bad for you)!
That's why I get on my SoapBox and encourage parents to listen to their children in whatever way they verbalize, and non-verbally by their changes in behavior. "Stuffing" is never good at anytime in our lives.

That's my 2 cents...LOL

HUGS all around,
Carolyn J