At 15, Mia Schaikewitz was a pretty average teenager: balancing academics, sports and a social life as she trained to be a competitive swimmer in Atlanta. Then, one evening, she found she couldn’t move her legs. By the time doctors identified the issue—a ruptured Arteriovenous Malformation that had injured her spinal cord—she was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. But even then, she didn’t view her new condition as a disability. Determined to do everything she had ever wanted to in …More