Linda Sutton
Special to the Star
Life holds many challenges for Nola Millin.
She has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair. Her speech is impaired. She requires help with the basics of everyday life — feeding, dressing, bathroom activities. She’s a diabetic who requires regular insulin injections. She uses several devices to communicate with people who cannot understand her speech. These include a word board and a Dynavox 5, nicknamed “V”, which speaks whatever she types into it.
But Millin, 47, loves to travel, so when she learned that a conference she regularly attends was to be held in Barcelona last July, she decided to take the opportunity to see a little bit of Europe via a cruise of the western Mediterranean.
“I wasn’t travelling that far to be cooped up in buildings all day,” Millin says. “I wanted to actually see places, so we decided to take a Mediterranean cruise.”
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