Nibs
George Edward White, my father. His boyhood nickname was ‘Nibs’. As a boy, he had two front teeth that made him look like a rabbit. The biggest impact that my father has made on my life is positive attitude and perseverence. This man has had hardship since day 1 and you’d never know it. I have learned so much just by watching his calm, positive steadfastness. He carries on, with no pity party. As a boy, he was born with his hip out of the socket, and back in the 30s, the treatment was to put him in a full-on body cast, with a bent leg and stilted shoe. How he learned to walk in this contraption with crutches is mind boggling. All he wanted to do was be a normal kid and play baseball like the other little kids. He rose above this disability, and went on to play baseball later on in high school. This was the first of five hip treatments he would have throughout his lifetime. He had 3 total hip replacements, and on the 4th, there wa...