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Date: Aug 25 10:01PM -0400
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We Never Told Him He Couldn't Do It
By Kathy Lamancusa
When my son Joey was born, his feet were twisted upward with the bottoms
resting on his tummy. As a first-time mother, I thought this looked odd,
but I didn't really know what it meant. It meant that Joey had been born
with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able
to walk normally, but would probably never run very well. The first three
years of his life, Joey spent in surgery, casts and braces. His legs were
massaged, worked and exercised and, yes, by the time he was seven or eight
you wouldn't even know he'd had a problem if you watched him walk.
If he walked great distances, like at the amusement parks or on a visit to
the zoo, he complained that his legs were tired and that they hurt. We
would stop walking, take a break with a soda or ice cream cone and talk
about what we had seen and what we had to see. We didn't tell him why his
legs hurt and why they were weak. We didn't tell him this was expected due
to his deformity at birth. We didn't tell him, so he didn't know.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play.
Joey would watch them play and, of course, would jump right in and run and
play too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as
well as the other children. We didn't tell him he was different. We didn't
tell him. So he didn't know.
In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day
he trained with the team. He seemed to work harder and run more than any of
the others. Perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come
naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. We didn't tell
him that although he could run, he probably would always remain in the back
of the pack. We didn't tell him that he shouldn't expect to make the
"team." The team runners are the top seven runners of the school. Although
the entire team runs, it is only these seven who will have potential to
score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never
make the "team," so he didn't know.
He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day. I'll never forget
the time he had a 103-degree fever. He couldn't stay home because he had
cross-country practice. I worried about him all day. I expected to get a
call from the school asking me to come get him and take him home. No one
called.
I went out to the cross-country training area after school, thinking that if
I were there, he might decide to skip practice that evening. When I got to
the school, he was running along the side of a long tree-lined street, all
alone. I pulled up alongside of him and drove slowly to keep pace with him
as he ran. I asked how he felt. "Okay," he said. He only had two more
miles to go. As the sweat rolled down his face, his eyes were glassy from
his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told
him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. We never told him.
So he didn't know.
Two weeks later, the day before the second to last race of the season, the
names of the "team" runners were called. Joey was number 6 on the list.
Joey had made the "team." He was in seventh grade. The other six team
members were all eight-graders. We never told him he probably shouldn't
expect to make the "team." We never told him he couldn't do it. We never
told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.
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