Disabled CANTON Woman Ditches Nursing Home For Fishing, Kayaking And Everything Else Featured At Annual Summer Camp

Terry Melket, Canton, Mass., paints pottery during the arts and crafts activity held Monday at Easter Seals Camp Hemlocks, a fully accessible, barrier-free summer camp located in Hebron, Conn.  Melket, 55, who has lived in a nursing home for the past 16 years, is one of 50 campers attending this year’s MS Vacation Week, which takes place June 9 through June 14. The six-day holiday is an annual program, hosted by the National MS Society, Connecticut and Greater New England chapters, for people living with the disabling effects of multiple sclerosis, a disease for which there is no cure. Melket, who uses a powered wheel chair for mobility, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 32 years old. When at camp, she says she enjoys arts and crafts and visiting with other campers. For more information on MS, it’s effects and the many ways the National MS Society, Greater New England Chapter, assists people living with MS, visit www.msnewengland.org.