84-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 28, 1996 On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) J Joyce Bupp Company coming. Bills to pay. Kids home from school ... bored already. Need to clean. Need to cook. Need to shop. Need to drop? Need a nap! Hectic holidays got you over wrought? Trying to pack a year’s worth of catching up, visiting, celebrating into this brief, busiest of-celebrations week in die year? And meanwhile, all the usual stuff needs done as well. Whoa. Hold it. Slow down. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Yeah, I know we’ve heard that phrase so much we’re sick of it. But ... think about it. Two chain-jerker incidents have happened in my life recently. You know, those things that come along, yank us from the daily rou tines and remind us to take each day for granted. 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About the same time, I traveled to the upper edge of the Chesa peake Bay to do a newspaper story on 11-year-old Ben Keyes. He and his family are dairy fanners on a historic farm just a stone’s throw from the town of Havre de Grace. Ben is one cool kid. He loves the farm, especially tractors. He’s a 4-H member and owns a couple See Your Local Kubota Dealer Ltbtnon 5 UncuMr KELLER BROS. TRACTOR CO. 717-949-2000 717-999-2*oo of his own heifers which he has shown at local fairs. He used to spend a lot of time playing sports and riding his bike around the farm. Now Ben rides a “Gator” around the Keyes’ farm, a small John Deere, six-wheeled cross between a golf-cart and a mini pickup truck. The day I visited, Ben toured me around the farm oh the Gator, along with his constant buddy, Bailey, the chocolate lab with the ever-wagging tail. See, Ben has cancer. He found out about a year ago, after he fell in die school gym playing soccer and banged his knee. The knee swelled up over a period of several weeks and, just before Christmas last year, was found to be cancer ous. Since then, Ben has had near ly a dozen surgeries at Johns Hopkins. During one of the, last June, his doctors amputated his left leg above the knee. It’s slowed Ben down a bit but hasn’t stopped him. He’s fig ured out how to play a little bit of soccer. With an artificial leg and on crutches. Just before Christmas this year—Ben had yet another round of cancer surgery. This time, the doctors operated on his lungs. Knowing Ben, he’s probably back out on that Gator or at least hounding his parents to let him be. Ben has become my inspiration. Now Bortmvilo WM ChaMr ERB * HENRY WENNER FORD EQUIPMENT, INC. TRACTOR. INC. •10-M7-21M (10-3 M-MIS RMdlng NICARRY EQUIPMENT, INC. 910-029-2441 York YORK TRACTOR, INC. 717-7*4-10*4 His picture hangs above my com puter. 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