Can You Walk Yet? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998061603)

Nelda Buss was born and raised on a small farm in Eastern Pennsylvania. She helped her parents by working on the farm along with her two sisters. The jobs included milking cows, feeding chickens and helping in the fields in the summer. After taking business courses and graduating from Bangor High School, she worked as a secretary at several businesses. She met her future husband Glenn Buss, while both were members of the Northampton County 4-H Dairy Club. They were married and moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where Glenn eventually earned his Ph.D. from Penn State. After graduation, he accepted a faculty position at Virginia Tech as a plant breeder. They had two children, Paula and Gary. Nelda was a stay-at-home mom until the children were in high school. She took part-time jobs until the children were in college and then took a full-time job as a fiscal technician at the university's conference center. She contracted ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 1984 and was no longer able to work. After numerous sessions with a psychic healer she recovered and is now a great-grandmother and living a normal life.