[Leica] Portrait: my sister

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

I missed this earlier: busy I guess, but its a lovely portrait, and an 
all to common story. Thanks for sharing it with the "family".

cheers
On 08/09/2005, at 8:38 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> Every September I make an emotional trip to Philadelphia to see my
> sister. When she was very young she contracted encephalitis, a very
> severe case, which left her severely damaged. I also go other times
> but during the first week of September they have a formal assessment
> of her condition and her needs.
>
> She was admitted to the care of the Devereoux Foundation in the early
> 50's where she has resided since. My mother was no longer truly sane
> after her illness and the doctors felt she, and me, would do better if
> Ann were in an institution. Devereoux take wonderful care of her. When
> my mother died in 1985 it became my task to care for the sister I
> never knew.
>
> Ann has had a bad time with a kidney infection but has rebounded. She
> has almost no language although she can sing songs she learned when
> she was very small. She cannot construct sentences although she can
> manipulate a small set of phrases to convey meaning. She likes to leaf
> through catalogs and hold little toys or stuffed animals.
>
> She exists in some unknown space for the mind - recognizing people,
> clearly getting pleasure from the site of a duck or dog or cat or a
> deer that may come up to the building where she lives. (Her campus is
> surrounded by the suburban woods around Devon, PA) But the larger
> world is lost to her.
>
> This is Ann, my sister.
>
> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/09/07/_L3U5649-bw.jpg>
>
> Thank you for sharing.
>
> (Canon 1Ds MK II, 24-70f/2.8L, ASA 400, 1/320 @ f2.8)
>
> Adam
>
>
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Alastair