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I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.