Butera's Place

January 23, 2007 Source: DelewareOnline: The News Journal What’s the difference between a paraplegic and a quadriplegic? Spinal cord injuries occur when there’s damage to the spinal cord. The result is loss of function, usually in mobility or feeling. Severe injuries that occur in the neck usually result in quadriplegia, which is paralysis from about […]

I woke up at about 8 or 9 a.m.  It doesn’t really matter what time it was, I just know it was early.  I know this because I didn’t go to bed until around 4:30 that morning.  We were at a party until about 2 a.m. the night before, and when we got home we […]

Let me start this story off by saying that Ruthie is a very good friend of mine.  I don’t really consider what happened as stupid, but I just can’t ever let her live it down. That’s understood between us.  Even after treating me as she has, we still remain friends. In fact, she still sends […]

Every few months, I would go out with a couple friends from work, Chris(tine) and Diana.  We usually go out to dinner after work, and sometimes catch a movie also.  This time, however, after dinner, we decided to rent a movie and go back to Chris’ house since her husband was out of town. We […]

The company I worked for used to have an annual off-site meeting.  One year we had it at Longwood Gardens, which is a local attraction featuring – what else – gardens; big, beautiful gardens.  The plan was to have our meeting in the morning, have lunch at the garden’s restaurant, then enjoy the gardens for […]

In the community where I once lived, there is a particular movie theater that had these little handicap “corrals.” The disabled were kept in these corrals during the movie, so they didn’t get in anyone’s way or bother anyone.  They were basically little walled-in areas at the back of each theater with no seats (presumably, […]

One day I was at the mall with a friend of mine doing a little shopping.  We were in a department store, and my friend was checking out the clothes racks while I waited.  The racks were pretty closely packed together, making it very difficult to get between them, so I just waited in the […]

When I was out at Craig Hospital in Colorado doing my rehab, they used to encourage us to go on little excursions around town.  One favorite place to go was the Denver Mall.  On one such excursion, I was at the mall with my parents and some old friends of theirs from back home, who […]

George Butera, a quadriplegic, is working to make a home of his own. February 27, 2000 Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Author: Melia Bowie WHITPAIN – For 32-year-old quadriplegic George Butera, the answering machine says it all: “You know, it’s been over 10 years and I’m not even trying to get to the phone anymore,” he […]

August 15, 1999 Source: The Times Herald NORRISTOWN – Golfers, sponsors and banquet-goers are invited to the second annual Madison Bank Relief Fund Golf Outing to be hold Aug.  30 at Plymouth Country Club. Proceeds will be split between two area men who have been injured and need financial help.  For $600, each foursome will […]