Reclaim Your Story- Guest Story by Jeff Rock
Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) The Night It Began On an October night in 2012, Immigration Attorney Margaret Baumer was on her way home to her apartment in New York City with some friends. They were returning from a party and upon getting to her apartment, Margaret Baumer realized that she didn't have the key to her door. She came up with a creative, if unorthodox, plan for getting into her apartment, and it almost worked. But in executing her plan, she had an accident and her arm was almost completely severed just below the elbow. It was the beginning of a series of painful events including multiple surgeries and being separated from her family by Storm Sandy. Own Your Narrative The story of the accident was picked up by several online publications, some of which distorted the truth, and created a devastating narrative where the protagonist is a fool deserving of her fate and losing a limb...