Rachel Dunard Historical Background

Rachel Dunard grew up being the youngest of four kids until 2000, when her younger siblings were born. Born April 13th, 1982, Rachel has two older brothers, Joe and Michael, an older sister, Jenny, and two younger siblings. When Rachel was an infant she learned that she had an infection in her left hip, that destroyed her left ball joint. Rachel was a patient of Shriner’s for the years to come. After all of her surgeries from being a toddler to age thirty-six, Rachel is not only able to walk, but can do anything anybody else does. She is very grateful to Shriner’s and all their doctors for helping her walk, because without them she would not be able to. Growing up, both of Rachel’s parents were police officers, and she enjoyed learning about her parents’ careers, and always had a …show more content…
Sand was everywhere, and Jason and his crew stayed at a co-op because the hotels were packed with families and victims of Katrina. “An estimated 150,000 evacuees were still living in hotel rooms across the country, with FEMA covering the expense” (World News Digest 1). As described in World News Digest, people were out of housing for a long time, and had to live in hotels for months. Some families had to completely move from the area because all the hotels were all booked and their houses were destroyed. “They had complete devastation and complete loss of their houses, their homes, their animals, um and it was a devastation to have a hurricane.” Rachel described some of the losses the families faced with hurricane, and that a lot of their things were just gone, including their homes. Some of the families affected went to live with relatives further inland or in other states. The crew that Jason stayed with did really well in taking care of them. They gave them cots, and provided meals as well. Rachel described how they even did laundry and gave them baked goods, as