The Tribe

The Student News Site of Holt High School
The Student News Site of Holt High School

The Tribe
The Student News Site of Holt High School

The Tribe
All content by Lindy Drew
"What's something people assume when they meet you, but they're totally wrong?" "I'm not handicapped. I just look like it." Comment: "I was caught in a house fire 21 years ago, and I barely escaped with my life. They think it was an electrical fire. I survived the Vietnam War, and then, I get caught in a house fire. A plastic surgeon put my face back together. And this is a bioelectric hand. It has electronic parts in it that pick up my muscle tone to open and close my hand just like you do. I don't even have to look at it . I just feel it. It's natural. Extension and flexion. I have legs that I ambulate on, also. Akward us the best word to describe the first time I put them on. Two and a half years in a medical facility and another five years just to recuperate. But I made it. I do all right.

[Photo] Humans of our Hometown

Brooke Ginger, Beat Editor
December 13, 2016
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