By: Olivia Johnson
Coca-Ioana Vladislav was born with a visual impairment, so she relied on her hands to create a new life 5,000 miles away from her birthplace in northeastern Romania. For the past 16 years, she’s been Boynton Health Service’s massage therapist.
“As a visually [impaired person], for example, you need the senses,” she said. “This is much better because you can’t look at somebody. … It will take you longer time to get to that point to feel everything that I feel because … it’s all my life.”