When I opened the termination letter from Bon Secours, most people would expect me to crumble. Instead, in a strange, fierce way, I felt relief. Relief because I was finally out of a workplace that treated safety like a performance metric and punished anyone brave enough to ask for basic accommodations. Relief because I no longer had to choose between my health and feeding myself. Relief because the slow, institutional strangling had finally stopped. But that relief came with

⚖️ When Accessibility Isn’t Accessible After my disability claim was denied — and after I was denied ADA accommodations  — I learned firsthand how deeply the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission  and other independent agencies fail people with disabilities. These systems are supposed to protect workers. Instead, they bury accessibility under bureaucracy. Most people can’t afford to fight back. And that’s exactly what these systems count on. Why I Filed a Federal ADA Inju