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Real representation begins when we stop seeing the disability and start seeing the person. – Photography: Oxford Mail.  By Rick Bontkowski Have you heard about Charlotte Nott? She’s 18 years old, a quadruple amputee, and one of the newest housemates on the UK version of Big Brother. Think about that for a second. A young woman missing four limbs has been dropped into one of the most mainstream social experiments on

Dr. David Hausmann: When control disappeared, healing became an act of trust.  By Rick BontkowskiDr. David Hausmann understood control.  A successful medical professional and finely tuned athlete, David had spent years building a life around discipline. He understood the body. He trained his own relentlessly. Career, health, fitness, purpose – these were things he pursued with intention.  Life was good. And then, almost without warning, control disappeared.  A devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection