"They would push me and push me-they made me work for myself," Debbie says of her care team. "I even had to push my own wheelchair to therapy." Her persistence paid off. She remembers the first day she walked, with the help of her therapists, her physician, Dr. Randie Black-Schaffer, and a custom brace from Spaulding's brace clinic. "I remembered thinking that if I can walk again, I can do anything," she recalls.
Today, Debbie feels she "can do anything now," including learning how to windsurf in the
Dr. Charles H. Weingarten Adaptive Sports Program. "What an experience," she says. "It felt amazing to be out and doing something different."
"They worked very hard with me, yet they were so compassionate," says Debbie about her rehabilitation at Spaulding. "My time there was incredible."
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