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Mrs. Corbin has been confined to a wheelchair for nearly two years. Each morning she gets herself out of bed and into the wheelchair herself. “People do not know what type of shape they will get in,” she said. She and her husband, who is 91, heat with a woodstove, and always have. Mrs. Corbin still cooks, but she must do so from her wheelchair. That makes cooking a potentially dangerous situation for her.
Ruby Leake, 76, lives in Sperryville with her husband, Buster, who is 81. Mr. Leake suffered a stroke in 1976, and up until a few years ago, Mrs. Leake cared for him by herself. Now she has help from four different people. “My energy is fading now,” she said. She is recovering from congestive heart failure, which sent her to the hospital last fall.
The Leakes have lived in the same house since they were married 59 years ago. Mrs. Leake said, “When anyone mentions a nursing home to Buster, he would just scream. As long as I am able to take care of him, with help from others, he will not go into a nursing home.” j Connie Owens is one of the care providers for the Leakes, and visits them four times a day, Monday through Friday. At 9 a.m„ she gets Mr. Leake out of bed and into a wheelchair, at 12:30 he goes back to bed for a nap, at 4:30 she gets him up again and into the wheelchair, and at
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