Bath Beach teen finds freedom thanks to wheelchair lift
A paralyzed Bath Beach teenager whose meeting with Pope Francis at Kennedy Airport in 2015 touched the hearts of New Yorkers has discovered a new sense of freedom thanks to a wheelchair lift that was recently installed in her family’s home.
Julia Bruzzese, a Xaverian High School sophomore, got the chance to personally thank state Sen. Martin Golden who had stepped in to help her parents, Enrico and Josephine Bruzzese, win approval from the government to have Medicaid pay for the wheelchair lift.
Julia suffers from Lyme disease and is wheelchair-bound.