Being Proud Of A Handicap by reader's Digest

Story title: Being Proud Of A Handicap
By: Reader's Digest
Written by Ethel Chapman

     A little boy had broken his leg and had to use a crutch. Sometimes he forgot about it and tried to run and then he would fall and hurt himself. How he hated that crutch !

    But his grandfather understood..So, one night while the boy was in bed, the old man painted the crutch red. In the morning the boy was astounded. He loved red... and now he was proud to show off that crutch. After the red had worn off, the boy woke up one morning to find a little bell attached to the hand bar. It tinkled whenever we walked, and people could even hear him coming.. Now he enjoyed his handicap, he crutch.
     That boy grew up to become a doctor, who still has a slight limp from his childhood accident. He keeps the little red crutch hanging on the wall of his office. Sometimes it gives him an excuse to pass on to a patient his grandfather's idea that a burden is carried more easily if we take pride in carrying it.