OF AN INDIVIDUAL LIVING WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
Ivette Folgueiras’ career as a medical assistant – first in geriatrics, then pediatrics – and involvement in Florida’s Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program exposed her to the caregiving and advocacy roles of family members of people with disabilities.
Her son
David’s nearly-fatal accident at age 10 – causing both C-3 spinal cord and
brain stem injury – put her into the driver’s seat of dogged advocate and
support system.
A bright, football-playing 5th grade Miami boy, David was on a fishing trip with his uncle deep in the Everglades in rural Collier County.
The boy darted into the road.
The impact with the vehicle nearly killed him.
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