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"We have a wheelchair to see what Kari needs" . "Could you put her in~ and We will make sure this is what Kari needs" . "Now she looks fine, don't you think? "
"Yes, but one thing is her head's out of the headrest".
"Well do you want this headrest for most of time and that one to try teach her to put her head back in and keep it in? "
"Okay that's great".
"Now here's the colour chart, What colour do you want?
"Pink, that pink" .
"Okay her chair Will be here in five weeks" . "Here's your daughter" .
"What time and what day should we come to get it? "
"Friday at 10:OO okay?"
"Right on, see you then".
"Bye" .
"Bye, thanks for the help" .
Kari really needed the chair. When the five weeks came Anne took Kari to get her chair.
"Here's Kari's chair Mrs. Murray".
Anne put Kari in it and she looked comfortable.
"Here's the other headrest".
"Bye" .
"Bye, I so glad to see Kari is comfortable " .
When they got to the car Anne lifted the seat off the base of the wheelchair and put Kari on the car seat and strapped her in and put the base in the trunk. When they got home they ate and Anne play with Kari. When Kari's daddy got home from work he talked with her" .
"You look really comfortable sweetie, did you know that?"
When Kari was four Anne had a baby boy and she called him Robert. Kari liked it when Anne held her new baby brother on her lap.
When Kari was five she went to school at the Ontario Crippled Children's Center. Robert was one year old and he was walking and talking very well. Anne wished she had an easier way to tell what Kari wanted, but she would try to make Kari happy.
The same thing when she was six, crying for some attention.
Robert was two and he wished his sister could tell them what she wanted. He didn't like his sister when she was crying.
When Kari changed to seven, an exciting thing happened. A teacher had a super way to teach the children who couldn't say much or couldn't say anything at all. This was Mrs. McNaughton. It worked just great. The ones who could point would point and the ones who couldn't point would point with their eyes or have an electric symbol board.
Yes Kari had symbols to talk! When Kari first took her electric symbol board home, her family was very happy and were proud of her.
"What do you have to say for your first time sweetie? "
"Like talk" .
"Do you like to talk for your first time? "
Kari got excited.
"Yes? "
In the summer Anne sent Kari to Blue Mountain Camp for crippled children. Kari was there for two weeks and she just loved it. So Anne sent her to camp when Kari said "Want camp go" .
Kari hadn't learned to make a full sentences yet.
In the past years Kari got better with her symbols.
"I want to go to camp mother".
"Okay honey" .
Kari was eleven when she went to Sunny View. Robert was seven and was going to James Robinsons Public School.
Kari needed a new chair because she was getting too big for her pink chair. Anne got a powder blue chair this time. Kari went to camp each year until she was eighteen. From time to time. Anne would sing to her children. Sometimes the whole family would sing and Kari would make happy sounds.
Once a year they would show their home movies of the children when they were babies.
"Do you know what Kari ? "
Kari got excited to hear what her mom was going to say.
"Everybody said You are a cutie aren't you,' ~ that's for sure" .
"What about me mom? "~
"You were a cutie too Robert" . "How glad I am to have you both cuties"" .