Pauley Perrette - Project Angel Food's Angel Awards in Los Angeles - August 18.

When she was 11, Carly woke up one dag with a neck ache and within an uur she was being life-flighted to the hospital after she stopped breathing. Upon waking in the hospital, Carly found that she could no longer walk, could barely talk and could not verplaats her arms and legs. Her doctors determined that she had suffered a blood clot in her spine that caused a severe spinal stroke, leaving her a quadriplegic.

In the years since her initial hospitalization, Carly has worked hard at various therapies and rehabilitation clinics to regain her abilities to talk, verplaats her body and even walk with the...