Last year, I was asked to speak to a group of physical therapy students to talk about my life as a person with a disability. I was asked plenty of great questions, but one in particular really caught me off guard.

“What is the biggest regret in your life?”

I was thrown for a loop. It was a question I’ve never been asked before and, to be honest, I never really thought about.

But after doing a quick scrub through my 36-year history in my mind, one theme kept popping up.