I initially started treatment in 1967, which I think was before the hospital
even initially opened or officially opened.
I was about three years old, living on an island accessible only by boat
and I was playing with an extension cord. I was trying to pull it apart it.
I was gonna make it into a telephone but I couldn't pull it apart with my hands so I bit it apart.
It burned a very big hole in my face.
I used to come annually and have a kind of a checkup, check-in and
the surgeon would, would look at the progress and then because we came from so far away,
sometimes I would just stay and then other times I would go home and be
told you can you can come back in a year.
So, but the times that I would stay,
initially it was a little scary letting my parents go and being in the big city
when I was from such a tiny little community. But within no time they had me
playing in the playroom and and meeting all the other kids.
They were able to repair this corner of my mouth so that my lips had a natural shape
and I remember just being so amazed by that. I could still feel the the spots inside
where the skin was grafted and taken out from the inside it to reconstruct my lip.
I was kind of a, um, a bit of a celebrity on the island because everybody knew
about my burn and my trips to Boston for the surgery.
The Ladies Aid Society and the Shriners would raise money for all of my transportation costs
so our family never incurred any financial hardship, which was really important because
my dad was a lobstermen and, you know, there were times when there wasn't a lot of income.
The last time I came I think I was a freshman in high school and
the doc said to me at that time, "You know, you can have more surgery if
you want but— but it looks pretty good— and it looks really good
and going through high school with that there was always this time of healing with
stitches and bandages and and I kind of felt like, you know what, I'm grateful for
all that they've done and I think it's enough.
I think I'm okay just the way I am.
These doctors and nurses and staff and volunteers are incredibly
compassionate people and, you know, this is some of the best work,
maybe the best work being done in the country so you are absolutely in the best hands possible.
Happy 50th Anniversary, Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston.
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