[nauadpi]

This topic makes me think of someone who I had known since kindergarden... She was one of the most outgoing women I have ever known, but she was born with cystic fibrosis. She spent elementary school in and out of the hospital. I remember going and visiting her there all the time. Finally in 8th grade she missed all of the school year. But during that time she was able to have lung transplanet surgery. She returned with us to start high school. She came back like her old self... A great story comes from one of the english teachers at our high school... He had given the assignment to write about overcoming an obstical. She walked up to him to tell him she had nothing to write about. That was the way her mindset always was. Except for her stuned growth if you met her for the first time you would never know she was sick. After high school she went on to Stanford University where she went through recruitment and joined a sorority. She was an extremely active sister in her sorority and during her sophmore year she moved into the house. But by her junior year she could not return. Her health had deteriorated too far. From stories people who saw her at this time would tell, she was her same self during this time. You could talk to her and you would forget she was sick until she started coughing and needed her oxygen tank. She would talk about her adventures with her sisters. Even in her last weeks she talked about being afraid she was out of school too long and would have to reaply if she missed much more school. She did not want to be considered as sick, and she lived her life that way.

I don't think it is up to us to decide if someone should go through recruitment, but just give them the oportunity.