Jon Morrow was born with Type I SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), a form of muscular dystrophy where the motor neurons controlling voluntary movement are progressively lost. Doctors predicted that he would die by the age of two. He survived, but by his 20s the only part of his body he could control was his face. Unemployed, unable to pay his costly medical bills, and living off welfare, he was facing a bleak future of slowly withering away in a nursing home.  

Ned Travers, 16, has suffered from severe epilepsy since he was 12. In 2014, he moved with his mother Carolyn Travers, 55, from Sydney to Tuscany. The same year they walked an old pilgrim route, which was his path to better health.
 

A Queensland medical graduate who was left quadriplegic after a car accident says being offered a place as an intern at the Gold Coast University Hospital is "incredible and surreal".

Doctor Dinesh Palipana became a quadriplegic in 2010 when he was in a bad car crash on the Gateway Motorway.

Last week, he was offered an intern placement, making him the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland.

Dr Palipana said it was a huge relief to be offered a placement after years of dedication.

When I was about a year old, I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

I don’t know much about the day I came into the world or what caused my cerebral palsy because I’m adopted. I was born on the streets of Seoul, South Korea, presumably without proper prenatal care. Someone, who I’m assuming was my birth mother, had enough sense to drop me off at a police station with a note that read: “Please adopt her to a family that can raise her.”

A few months later, I joined my very large family in America. I was almost 11 months old.