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Come up and see me sometime...I'll be here

Name: Martha Rhoton
Email: mrhoton@me.cc.va.us
Date: 24 Aug 2000
Time: 20:05:50

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I have worked in a community college library for the past 19 years. For many of those years, I was able to go out of town to professional meetings as the sole representative of our library staff. These meetings are required attendance two or three times a year to keep up with new policies and procedures; they also serve as professional development activities.

For the past nine years I have not been able to walk without assistance because of degenerative arthritis in my left hip, a direct result of years of wear and tear that comes with aging with cerebral palsy. Six years ago I had a complete hip replacement, which ended the pain; however, I will never be able to go on my own like I once did. The last time I went to one of these professional meetings, about three years ago, the computers were down in the building where we were scheduled to have the meeting. It was hands-on training, which meant the meeting was useless without computer access. After about half-hour, the computer technicians rigged up a computer lab for us in a building across campus at the college where the meeting was held. So we all had to trudge across campus in a steady spring rain. I never could walk fast in my good old days. Now, with two canes, I'm slower than a centipede. But I got there, that's the main thing!

When I got back to campus, I asked my boss: "Please don't make me go to any more off-campus meetings!" He promised he wouldn't, and he's been true to his word. Now some of my colleagues go to these off-campus meetings, come back and explain to me what went on there, while I keep our campus library open. Someone has to hold down the fort, as the saying goes, and I'm glad to be the homebody! It's a win-win situation as far as I'm concerned.

So, if you're ever in the vicinity, come up and see me sometime in the library, I'll be here, happy to see you.

Copyright © 2000 Martha Rhoton. All rights reserved.

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