One year ago today I launched the fundraising initiative that would help me find my way to St. Louis for SDR surgery. This was one of the scariest, most nerve-wracking yet empowering projects I had ever chosen to tackle in my life. One year ago, I didn’t know how to help people understand the reality of aging with CP, which had brought me to the point of pursuing SDR. I didn’t know how to navigate the early criticisms directed at me before we had even gone live, for daring to