Mary Farrell remembers watching her daughter struggling as a child to open a Band-Aid box. She worked laboriously at it for 25 minutes before succeeding, no small task for the child who had suffered from seizures and was diagnosed with spastic quad cerebral palsy with athetosis, a movement disorder.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

You must be an online subscriber to view this story.

Username or e-mail address: *

You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address.

Password: *

The password field is case sensitive.

Secure Login