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HAROLD BLOSSOM
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Hi everyone and thanks for this opportunity. I'm Harold Blossom and am from Madison, Wisconsin; in fact, I was born there and have lived there all my life. During my early years I served with the US Army in Korea and when I came back I went into the graphic design business. I started my own business and was doing quite well but someone came along and offered me a job no one could refuse BUT politics eventually entered the picture and the boss's son entered the picture and with all the stress involved so did torticollis. That was 1980. I continued working until 1988 when I retired. During those years I was virtually undiagnosed. I can still remember the most difficult form of treatment that one therapist told me to do and that was putting my head in a sling with a line on a pulley that went over the door and then putting 2 bricks in a basket and I had to pull that up and down. I did it every day until there were 12 bricks in it.

Fortunately, some neighbors moved in next door, Pat and Dave Snyder, and she had ST. They told me about a support group in the Milwaukee area and persuaded me to go to a huge picnic they had. What a surprise to see a park full of people with "crooked" necks, just like me. Needless to say, we joined the group. Through the years this group and the people in it have been very helpful. With my family, botox, the Milwaukee support group and many friends, life has been very good.

(Ed. note: What Harold doesn't say is that he's contributed a lot of time and effort into the support group. For years he and his neighbor, Dave, would make door stops of animal’s pictures out of plywood - Dave would do the cutting and Harold the painting - as a fund raiser. Whenever you see a cartoon in our magazine, it’s probably been the work of Harold. Harold also has done many other things as contributions for our golf outings. His latest projects have been to carve out of commercial Styrofoam objects such as a golfer swinging a club, or a fisherman throwing out his line - very clever and exacting and Harold's eyesight is not that good anymore. To Harold, for all your contributions and for being a great man, Thanks).

Great job Harold...and well deserved!!!
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