April 15, 2009
A smile shared with respiration therapist, moments after being coached off ventilation, post emergency surgery April, 2009
A smile from MFD , a thousand words worth
“I never will understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
Mother Teresa
March 14, 2009
. We were once asked this. We know because Dustin tells us. Tools are Dustin’s friends, yet even without a computer, a letterboard , a headpointer, a hand splint, a single switch, etc Dustin remains a very expressive person.
March 14, 2009
For many years, Dustin had some control of his left arm. This was intentional control that was compromised by spasticity , but control that was full of purpose and intent. If I put my hand on his shoulder, thus aborbing some of his high muscle tone , Dustin was able to use a small splint and type.
March 14, 2009
The chinpointer is a help to Dustin as he has difficulty with objects being up close to his eyes. Possibly due to the way he uses his eyes, peripheral vision being stronger than central vision, etc. In his younger days he was quite terrified of all headpointers. Working with the chinpointer has been a help. He is becoming much more comfortable with a headpointer.
March 14, 2009
Dustin wrote this while an elementary school student, West Chester Pa. Writing mode: Letterboard, left hand pointing to letters.
LITTLE ANT
since hurt stifles much sullen and just emotion,
family insulates utter frustration.
too often, many times pitiful goofy old hilled paths of digging ants
line up like soldiers.
Fast at digging, they seem kind of intelligent
but very slavelike.
such obedience will really earn everyone’s respect.
Tell them I hide in the most open hill
and they are diggin right past
(Ants ought to keep proper hills)
Turning from the digging, the ants melt away. Do I feel sort of like a little ant that has
lost his mind?
Without family, yes I would.
Dustin Webb
Student Thornbury Elementary School
Chester County Book Company Poetry Contest Winner
Published Daily Local News West Chester Pa. March 3, 1992
Copyright © 2007 Dustin Webb
May 16, 2008
July 13, 2007
Today celebrates Cadillac of ect.
I age, utter out and in
Hurting each day
Dull thoughts
Mack
Truck
Mean
Kismet
Time to write, curtain down
Yfd
July 20, 2007
July 18, 2007
Kismet at the Tour
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Kismet at the tour
Can it seem possible?
Killing cut throat Lance’s times tepidly,
Dog takes the lead.
Attacking pedestrian first, he then catapults off,
Then attaches to a rear wheel.
Dog will be tested for dope.
Using Floyd’s doctors,
He utters “egalitarian that I am, it appears testosterone is high. At my assurance,
I am unusually manly.”
yfd July 18,2007 (yesterday’s stage, dog trips up rider, previous stage, spectator/cyclist issue)