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鸭子*柠檬
自从她在幼稚园类被用于的Backman孵化了在波兹毛斯，教柠檬， Pekin鸭子，完全失去了能力。
Backman， 39，现在把柠檬的传记变成一本被说明的儿童图书， “柠檬鸭子”，教容忍和启发希望对于儿童，失去能力。
在被孵化的柠檬，她的平衡问题立刻是明显的之后。 她不可能独自地走-，并且她仍然不能，由于一个神经学问题她的兽医嫌疑犯可能造成由温度或湿气问题在孵出时，或者由得到通过壳的病毒或其他传染物质。
所有去预先安排家的极少数其他小鸡在幼稚园类孵养器孵化了，但是Backman同意承担柠檬和她会需要的所有嫩关心。
“是其中一件事我设法给她，是迷人生活，即使她不可能与鸭子居住外面”， Backman说。 “我知道大概听起来我被她占据心思。 并且我是。 但是它是好成见”。
Backman说她总是私生子的书，并且想法柠檬的生活是值得的印刷品。 她的出版者同意。
“我们认为它是一个意想不到的启发故事，什么她做了与这只鸭子”，说Meghan Nolan，龙虾新闻的社论主任，在印刷品投入柠檬的故事的一家加拿大孩子的书出版公司。 “消息为孩子是真正地好的，关于采纳和拥抱区别”。
书-最初的Backman的描述轮流真实的故事孩子怎样来了解柠檬的伤残和在她附近召集，计划路线帮助和喂养她。
在书以前，柠檬在与其他鸭子由于的草弄脏哺养的鞔具。 Backman的字符-书的告诉的女士Lake -告诉柠檬永远将需要他们的她的学生。
“我认为我们需要她，同样”，一名学生说，当他拥抱柠檬。
在真正的生活中，柠檬是爱拥抱，善社交和从未害羞的。 她的伤残是显然的： 当柠檬试图运动时，她的脖子扭转，直到她的额嘴底部向天空面对，并且胆怯一束在她的冠的被别住到她的乳房。 有时她得到被解开。 经常， Backman宽松轻轻地撬起她的头。
但是柠檬去回到吃或推挤在一个特别地被设计的步行者。 “Lemobile”是关于脚和一半正方形工具由白色PVC管道系统、吊索和光滑辗压轮子制成。 柠檬踢她的脚，摇摆她的tailfeathers并且推进自己今后或在圈子。
“她是非常易怒的。 她有生活的真正的热心”， Backman在接受采访时满足说当柠檬庸医在通风的家庭的，江边家在波兹毛斯。
由于柠檬不可能控制她的全身功能，她必须佩带Backman改变六次每天的尿布。 Backman沐浴她的每天早晨并且用车运送她几乎到处她去。 柠檬是与Backman对牙医任命和亲戚的语图。
Backman被介绍了给鸭子由她的父亲，保留他们作为宠物，当她是孩子。 他开发了多scleroris，并且她和她的家庭必须帮助他有每需要的。
“我的爸爸不可能做什么他自己的，但是我们没有让那中止他从有整个人生”， Backman说。
在她的书， Backman其中一个孩子理查，以她的父亲命名，死一年，在柠檬孵化了之前。
夫妇兽医Backman咨询被问的柠檬的生活水平，并且暗示她也许考虑euthanization。 因为她是确定的柠檬不在痛苦中，但是那未曾是Backman的一个选择，一部分。
“她真正地损坏并且爱这只鸭子，并且她是一只愉快的小的鸭子”，在康涅狄格总统说金伯利链接，庄严水鸟圣所的。 链接的组织从Backman的书接受某些收益，象罗德岛多发性硬化症社会。
大约书的10,000个拷贝当前是印刷品。 它花费$19.95并且可以在网上被预定通过柠檬的网站， www.lemontheduck.com，或者通过传统网上卖书者。
贝克在达特矛斯、大量。，最近被主持的书读书的柠檬和Backman预定。
“柠檬是死为”，面包师史密斯说Gretchen，帮助在商店跑儿童的事件。 “她是非常宽容孩子和许多人有她和是在混乱中间”。
柠檬很少只quacked，使孩子跳跃。
“孩子习惯于在地方公园这里”，面包师史密斯说。 “您能看到鸭子和鹅。 有些是真正地，真正地积极。 我认为有些认为是她怎么打算是，但是她不是”。
因为Pekin鸭子能居住十年或更长，柠檬可能有更多岁月书读书-续集在工作-有趣的学校孩子和安排她的额嘴和脚被摩擦，她爱。
“她是非常愉快的”， Backman说。 “每天早晨她想要去，去，去”。
Lemon, a Pekin duck, has been physically disabled since she hatched in the kindergarten class Backman used to teach in Portsmouth.
Backman, 39, has now turned Lemon's life story into an illustrated children's book, "Lemon the Duck," to teach tolerance and inspire hope in children, disabled or not.
After Lemon hatched, her balance problems were immediately apparent. She couldn't walk on her own - and she still can't, because of a neurological problem her veterinarian suspects could have been caused by temperature or humidity problems during incubation, or by viruses or other infectious agents getting through the shell.
The handful of other chicks hatched in the kindergarten class incubator all went to pre-arranged homes, but Backman agreed to take on Lemon and all the tender care she would require.
"That's one of the things I'm trying to give her, is a ducky life, even though she can't live outside with the ducks," Backman says. "I know it probably sounds like I'm obsessed with her. And I am. But it's a good obsession."
Backman said she's always loved children's books and thought Lemon's life was worthy of print. Her publisher agreed.
"We just thought it was a fantastic inspiration story, what she's done with this duck," says Meghan Nolan, editorial director at Lobster Press, a Canadian kids' book publishing company that put Lemon's story in print. "The messages were really nice for kids, about acceptance and embracing difference."
The book - Backman's first - describes the true story of how children come to understand Lemon's disability and rally around her, devising ways to help and taking turns feeding her.
By the end of the book, Lemon mucks around in the grass with other ducks thanks to a feeding harness. Backman's character - called Ms. Lake in the book - tells her students Lemon will always need them.
"I think we need her, too," says one student as he hugs Lemon.
In real life, Lemon is cuddly, sociable and never shy. Her disability is obvious: When Lemon attempts a movement, her neck twists around until the bottom of her beak is facing skyward and the tuft of white feathers on her crown is pinned to her breast. Sometimes she gets herself untangled. More often, Backman gently pries loose her head.
But Lemon goes right back to eating or pushing herself around in a specially designed walker. The "Lemobile" is about a foot-and-a-half-square contraption made of white PVC piping, a sling and smooth-rolling wheels. Lemon kicks her feet, wags her tailfeathers and propels herself forward or in circles.
"She's very feisty. She has a real zest for life," Backman says in an interview as Lemon quacks contentedly in the family's airy, waterfront home in Portsmouth.
Because Lemon can't control her bodily functions, she has to wear diapers that Backman changes six times a day. Backman bathes her every morning and carts her almost everywhere she goes. Lemon has been with Backman to dentist appointments and relative's sonograms.
Backman was introduced to ducks by her father, who kept them as pets when she was a child. He developed multiple scleroris, and she and her family had to help him with every need.
"My dad couldn't do anything for himself, but we didn't let that stop him from having a full life," Backman said.
In her book, Backman names one of the kids Richard, after her father, who died about a year before Lemon hatched.
A couple veterinarians Backman consulted questioned Lemon's quality of life and implied she might consider euthanization. But that was never an option for Backman, in part because she was assured Lemon isn't in pain.
"She really does spoil and love this duck, and she's a happy little duck," said Kimberly Link, president of the Majestic Waterfowl Sanctuary in Connecticut. Link's organization is receiving some of the proceeds from Backman's book, as is the Rhode Island Multiple Sclerosis Society.
About 10,000 copies of the book are currently in print. It costs $19.95 and can be ordered online through Lemon's website, www.lemontheduck.com, or through traditional online booksellers.
Baker Books, in Dartmouth, Mass., recently hosted Lemon and Backman for a book reading.
"Lemon is to die for," said Gretchen Baker-Smith, who helps run children's events at the store. "She's very tolerant of kids, and lots of people having her, and being in the middle of pandemonium."
Lemon only rarely quacked, which made kids jump.
"Kids are used to being at the local park here," Baker-Smith said. "You can see the ducks and the geese. Some of them are really, really aggressive. I think some of them were thinking that's how she was going to be, but she wasn't."
Since Pekin ducks can live a decade or longer, Lemon could have more years of book readings - a sequel is in the works - entertaining school kids and having her beak and feet rubbed, which she loves.
"She's very happy," Backman says. "Every morning she just wants to go, go, go."
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