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vertebra down. He couldn’t bend or lift. Even walking was a challenge.
“I'd always been the type to work seven days a week. I thought it was the end of my life. We had three kids in school and all that I'd built up in the past was gone. I had no way to earn a living!”
“It’s another world when you’re out of a job and you can’t go back to work. We went through some rough times. Everybody has a little bit of pride. To keep that pride, a man’s got to be able to support his family,” Bowers maintained.
“In all the years we’d been married, in 23 years, Bob had missed only a day and a half from work,” interjected Ruth Bowers.
“That was food poisoning I got from a bad hotdog off a chow truck,” her husband added.
But the spinal injury was much more debilitating than ptomaine poisoning. The will to go back to his construction job was there but the way wasn’t—not with his spine fused into an inflexible column. And the skills that Bob Bowers had mastered through years of hard labor at construction and farm jobs were all physical skills.
In a last attempt to regain the dignity he felt he had lost when he lost the power to support in family, he contacted the vocation rehabilitation office in Culpeper.
“Mr. Tuck Baker the
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