“I was at school one day and I just fell in class and I haven’t been able to walk since,” shared sophomore Delaney Bosworth who is currently paralyzed from the waist down from a rare disease called transverse myelitis.

Bosworth likes to remind others that she is just like anyone else. She was involved in cheer leading before all of this. She states how before any of this she didn’t really take disabilities in account to how much they affect a person’s life till now experiencing it she.

“I used to say how awesome I was but now I’m humbler, I want to be more positive and inspire people, which I really didn’t do before this”, states Bosworth.

Even though she’s affected with this she has a positive look on her recovery and she states that her doctors have a guess that she has a 70% chance of recovery. “This isn’t 100 or zero or 50, so I have a good shot at it [recovery]” states Bosworth. But she’s not giving up, she says that she goes to physical therapy often and they do a lot of exercises that the therapists believe will gain her, her walking back. So far Bosworth explains that she’s able to move her right leg by herself perfectly fine but her left leg she states is still a “Jell-O Leg”.

Other then Bosworth’s recovery, she thinks that a lot of things that she might have never experienced have come out of these three years. Ever since she’s been paralyzed she’s been going to Kennedy Krieger, she says that she makes a lot of speeches over there about her condition. She would’ve never been able to do that if not in a wheelchair. “I’ve also gotten the chance to talk to people on TV and in the newspaper “, she also explains that this is also away to get her story out there so people know that if there going through the same experience. Those people can relate to her and look up to her as an inspiration, which is was she really wants.

The support from people from Kennedy Krieger is nice and all but Bosworth believes that her family and friends is the most important people she has around her right now. Even though her family is “My main thing” she states. Bosworth, states that she also loves Drama and anything to do with drama, she states “[drama] it really helped me break out because I was really scared coming to a new school, especially high school.”

Coming into high school was the hardest part for her because before she came here she was planning on going to Fallston she recalls. But Fallston High school wouldn’t allow her into their school because they apparently weren’t “Handicap accessible” Bosworth states. Her family after that fought with Harford County Public Schools all summer, until finally they found North Harford. Bosworth states that “The people here are the nicest people I’ve ever met, they’re so supportive and there are those kids that still look at me oddly in the hallway but I just dismiss them because this is me.”