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TRAVELER OF THE MONTH
What seemed the end of everything for young Glenn Roberts proved to be only the beginning
Accompanied by his mother Flemma, Glenn told Tommy how he barned to adjust himself to a world of two-handed people.
By TOMMY BARTLETT
When a star athlete tells you that the most thrilling moment of his life was the one when he realized he could drive an automobile, you can sense the elements of a story. In the case of our traveler of the month, twenty-year-old Glenn P )berts of Paris, Missouri, the story is a happy one.
Glenn was a track star in high school. His mother, Mrs. Flemma Roberts, had "worked out" to help put him through school, so Glenn got a job as quickly as he could. He was doing some repair work on a high voltage power line about two years ago when a short circuit came close to electrocuting him. Instead, however, it knocked him from his forty-foot perch and burned his hands and arms so badly that they had to be amputated.
Doctors tried to make the amputations below the elbow, realizing that it would greatly simplify Glenn's problems when the time came for artificial limbs. Their efforts were unsuccessful, however, and a second amputation, c>ose to the shoulders, was necessary.
His mother's first reaction was, "This is the end. We won't have anything more to live for." Glenn admits that he was in such a state of shock from the near-electrocution that he had no feeling at all about the problems he faced.
It was after he was discharged from the hospital that a nurse from the power company's insurance company came to visit and persuaded Glenn to go to Boston to a new and experimental rehabilitation center for accident victims. With misgivings, he and his mother, neither of whom had ever done much traveling, packed and started for Boston, determined to come back the minute they proved to themselves that the training was impractical.
They stayed in Boston a year and a half, while Glenn learned to use a new type of artificial hand with controls that could be operated from the shoulder. More than that, he learned to adjust himself to meet a world of two-handed people on even terms. He developed a spirit that nobody is going to break.
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