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When Chris Waddell entered rehabilitation after a skiing accident left him paralyzed from the waist down at age 20, he had one goal — to leave walking.
It didn’t happen.
In the more than two decades since, Waddell said he learned that a disability is just like so many other difficulties in life.
“Something is going to happen in our lives that cuts us to the bone,” Waddell told hundreds of people gathered at the Chattanooga Convention Center on Wednesday. “We have a choice of how to react.”
Waddell was the keynote speaker for the Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation’s Possibilities luncheon, the hospital’s annual fundraising event.