“The train passed by around 10 seconds later.”
Brave Stranger Rescues Man In Wheelchair Who Slipped Onto Subway Tracks
‘Please don’t leave me! I don’t want to die! I thought about my parents and wondered if this was how my life would end.’: College football player paralyzed by distracted driver
“The oncoming car was crossing the double yellow line, coming straight at us. In that moment, I saw the woman who was driving. She was looking down, and the blue light of a device lit her face in the growing darkness around us. I felt my body tensing for the toughest tackle of my life. It was like watching an eerie slow-motion playback from a big game.”
‘There’s a high chance your daughter has it.’ I was scared. Will she be accepted by her peers if she needs a walker?’: Mom helps daughter with cerebral palsy start inclusive YouTube channel
“I would like to think it was from all the ‘I love you’s’ or the words of affirmation she recites every night. Or from a mom who never stopped advocating for her. But her happy ending is not from any of that. It’s from her.”
‘There’s one condition.’ I was shocked. I was used to getting overlooked.’: Woman with disability shares man’s surprising act of kindness, ‘It restored my faith in human kindness’
“He just shook his head. ‘Are you sure?’ I asked him. As I was thanking him, he told me to hang on and ran somewhere. This one experience was enough to make my whole week.”
‘He popped my hip out with a simple tap of his finger. I believed I’d always live in pain.’: Chronic illness warrior ‘thankful’ for journey
“The doctor came in. ‘How many broken bones do you think you have?’ Then he laughed and said, ‘You’re completely fine.’ I doubted my own body, thinking my pain was all in my head.”
‘Look, the weird kid is back.’ They talked about him as if he was an exhibit at the zoo.’: Mom to son with Goldenhar syndrome says ‘we are more alike than we are different’
“They didn’t know in his first 2 months of life, he came close to death so many times. They didn’t see me standing outside his hospital room, frozen as the medical team performed chest compressions. They knew he was different. They just didn’t know why.”
‘I noticed my right arm going numb. After a month, it spread to my whole body.’: Multiple Sclerosis warrior wins 2nd place at World’s Strongest Disabled Man
“I couldn’t work the same or train the same. I wasn’t ‘big Dave’ anymore! I couldn’t even be the same dad to my kids. I felt like I lost my sense of everything.”
‘Your pregnancy is extremely high-risk.’ No baby had ever survived this.’: Disabled mom survives near-fatal pregnancy, shares mental health journey
“My body has more implants and bionic body parts/organs than human parts. I’m not the mother I envisioned myself being, but I get out of bed anyway. For my kids, for my husband, and for myself.”
‘He’s called a hero or a saint, simply for being with me.’: Woman with Osteogenesis Imperfecta advocates for disability awareness
“He doesn’t see ‘past’ my disability because my disability is part of me! He sees it, he sees me, and he loves all of me.”
‘He WILL have a good brain, so make sure he uses it.’: Man with rare Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva seeks to ‘normalize ALL disabilities’
“’It’s SO important for him to have as normal a life as possible while he physically can.’ I am ALWAYS raising the bar and crushing my goals.”
