Gypsy Rose Blanchard

I knew that I could walk.

I just want to make that clear.

I knew that I could walk.

so then she goes on to tell other people well she was paralyzed and doctors mind you tell doctors that i was paralyzed since birth even though there's pictures and there's family and and there's all these people that had seen me grow up walking right right so then

My mom had a very, like, her personality was sweet.

To the untrained eye, I guess you could say, she had a very welcoming presence.

Um, everybody was, it was like that classic Southern mom.

Hi, sweetie, darling, sugar, you know, all that.

Yes.

Um, and there was one doctor in particular, um, that she honestly, I think in my opinion, buttered up.

She would buy him gifts, um,

He would come and visit us at the Ronald McDonald House.

Okay.

You know, there was this sort of friendship that I don't feel is professional.

You shouldn't have friendships with your patients.

Yes, there was.

And this brings us to quite a pivotal moment.

There was a doctor.

His name was Dr. Flaschenstein, or Flascherstein, however you want to kind of say it.

And he examined me.