Your hands curl. Instead of walking, you lurch. Instead of talking, you must point at letters. It is a long, high-pitched wheeze, this laugh of Joey Berberich's, but it is captivating. Twice a day, every day, they arrive at Mr. Berberich's home to assist with a special physical therapy that requires at least five sets of hands.
Some people come once a month, others once a week.
All are volunteers - relatives, nurses, teachers, parishioners from St. Henry Church in Elsmere. There are nearly 100 of them in all. Mr. Berberich lays on a big, padded table in what was once the living room. Each helper grabs a limb. Together, they move his body, taking his brain back to babyhood.