Paralyzed by chance, positive by choice
Ask Duanne Puckett about her philosophies on life, and she'll say simply, "Be satisfied." That's huge coming from a woman who has more right than most to be very unsatisfied with her own situation.
For 42 of her 58 years, Puckett has been zooming around Shelby County in a wheelchair, paralyzed below the arms. The woman who wasn't supposed to live past 30 has been, among other things, editor of The Sentinel-News, inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, and the mouthpiece for Shelby County Public Schools.
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