This Ability Podcast
"This Ability" podcast was created to discuss everything from feeding tubes to epilepsy to accessibility and all topics in the special needs community. It is a platform for individuals with disabilities, their family members, friends, and caregivers just to talk about everyday life.
This Ability Podcast
Katie Haynes Interview
In this episode, we interview Katie Haynes from Youngsville, North Carolina. She is the first person to compete in the Miss United States Agriculture pageant in a wheelchair and we talk about her pageant experience in many competitions. She has Gastroparesis and a rare form of dysautonomia called AAG, Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy. She formed her own non-profit organization called Smiling While Sending Hope and it's mission is to make an impact on others' lives and bring smiles to people's faces, to spread awareness of many chronic illnesses and special needs by supplying them with care package while in the children's hospitals in North Carolina.
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