yankee11 - New Member Introduction

[yankee11]

I signed up to DealofDay.com through
Blink.com. My hobbies are: watching
professional baseball(A 'BIG' N.Y Yankee
fan since 1964), football, basketball,
chess. I am a low-keyed middle-age
guy who just loves to enjoy life.
I have been blessed up till 2 years ago.
Since birth I have had cerebral palsy,
but was one of the lucky ones. The
doctors throught I would be a 'stuff'
animal, but I proved them wrong. I
went from not walking at all untill
about 6 years old, to started walking
without any special equipments when
I was 10. Went on to be able to play
most sports, of course not professionally.
I played baseball, golf, basketball.
Went on to get my B.S. degree in
Computer sciences and math. An now am
a computer techinal support/programmer
for an large tool company in the midwest
(grew am in my earlier years in upstate
N.Y. But I got a bad break a few years
ago when my cervical spine get really
bad, and needed 2 neck operations
(the second one was a 12 hour operation
in which the doctors had to totally
reconstructive my cervical spine and
also bones fusion). I have yet to fully
recover from that operation. I now
need a walker to walk, and have terrible
muscle spasms all over by upper back
resulting in limited movement of my
arms. I am doing lots of weights conditioning. The doctor hopes I will
have some improvements as the
nerves damage from the operation
re-generates itself. Although there is
no guarantee. I will differently will have
more of a up hill battle this time around
then in my earlier years with my Cerebal
palsy. But I still consider my self 'lucky'.
I still enjoy 'life', even though pain.
As far as the best deal I ever had
was all those wonderful people out
there who donated money year after
year to the Cerebral Palsy Telethon.
If it was not for the money that was
collected, I would not have had such
wonderful people who helped me
work through my earlier development
of my life and beat the odds of living
a 'normal' life as a cerebral palsy person.

[buckeyemomma]

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[geepie1961]

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[snooze14]

Hi yankee11. You are really an inspiring person with such a great attitude. I admire that. Glad you joined. This is such an awesome and fun site. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Check out the forums. I wouldn't want you to miss anything.

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