A psychologist’s lifetime of challenging assumptions while living with paralysis
"When you have a disability, people make assumptions about you, and they make judgments about your character and your abilities."
Nikki Saltzburg was born three months premature while her parents were vacationing in Bermuda. With Saltzburg weighing just 2 pounds, 2 ounces, they flew her back to Philadelphia on a Navy plane, the whole aircraft set to 98.8 degrees Fahrenheit so that she’d survive the journey.
Saltzburg is now a 45-year-old staff psychologist at Florida Atlantic University who has been paralyzed from the waist down almost her whole life. “I wasn’t injured from the circumstances of my birth,” Saltzburg clarifies. Instead, a series of medical errors, including a faulty diagnosis and a medication-induced blood clot, disabled her.
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