Luckie doggedly finds a way around challenges of spina bifida

“My parents … when I was little, they instilled in me to do things on my own as much as possible, that this was gonna be my life, so I need to needed to learn early how to do the things that I need to do in my life.”

AC anchor Sarah Williams and guest Dudley Luckie chat about life with spina bifida and Spina Bifida Awareness Month, which is celebrated each October.

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Alabama Care is partially supported by the Alabama Council on Developmental Disabilities (http://www.acdd.org/). The views expressed are not necessarily the views of these organizations.

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