everything will be okay

My daughter's disability was entirely my fault.

All the things that a mom should do? I failed at the most important one, to keep my child safe. Beth was fourteen years old when I fell asleep at the wheel. She watched the car flip three times and land upside-down in a dark Ohio field.

Unable to move on a bed of glass, Beth ​reassured me, saying, "I'm okay. Everything will be okay."

And it was. Eventually. In time.

I wish I had known that at the beginning. Despite my life's work with disability, I could only see everything that she had lost. Because of me.

At first, I thought that Beth would be limited by her spinal cord injury. Today, I am happy to have been wrong.

This new blog will share the highlights of an amazing journey. I hope you will come along!

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