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From: "M BOWKER" <bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Guide Chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:32:32 +0100
Hi Elizabeth, pleased you found my artical of interest. I think you will 
understand the way things were in the 40's  and early  50's. as regards to 
hospitals
 and schools etc. I don't think the younger one's on here will see it the same 
as we do. There is more to come yet.

love Malcolm. xxx

Have read your story Malcolm. I am amazed and saddened by what you had to 
endure  Thanks for telling us. Will look out for part six   Elizabeth

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From: M BOWKER - Email Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 20/08/2012 21:44
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Subject: [guide.chat] Part 5. new school.

When I left junior  school I was told by my mother that I was going to a new 
school that she had got me into after a lot of fighting to get me in there. It 
was an experiment that the education were trying out for the partially sighted. 
This one classroom would be in a main stream secondary school. So after the 
summer holidays I would be going there. I had to  go to the local bus stop and 
a special bus would pick me up every day and bring me home again. I missed 
taking my   eleven plus because I also had a letter to say I had to go for 
another operation on my mouth. I went to the hospital  in Whthenshaw. It was 
the old R. A. F. huts that had been turned into wards. This time the operation 
was going to be a lot different to the one I had at the age of three. So I was 
admitted and for a couple of days they left us to get to know the other kids in 
there. Then its started. I was taken down as they say and had a lot of skin 
taken of my legs.  Some time later they took me down again and when I came 
round I had what we nicknamed a sausage. They had made my skin grow into what 
looked like a sausage , it was about an inch thick and about ten inches long. 
It had been stitched to the inside of my right arm and the other end fastened 
to the side of my rib cage. This had to be left to grow to a certain size then 
they would cut it off and use the new groan skin to make a new pallet. After 
some weeks I was taken down again for the big operation. I don't know how long 
it took but it was a long time. I spent the next two weeks recovering . Every 
day I had penicillin injections and for the first week I had raw eggs to eat 
and nothing else. This was because I had 59 cat gut stitches down the middle of 
my new palate. Going from the front to the back of my mouth. These were about 
half an inch long and irritated mi to the point of madness. After that I went 
to  Conway    for three months convalescence..  
part 6 to follow.

love Malcolm. xxxx.

 Cheshire,

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