Charlotte Sanders volunteers full time at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Northwest Washington, helping patients recover from life-threatening injuries like her own. The Largo resident took the job immediately after recuperating from a traumatic brain injury, which put her in a coma for seven months. She struggles daily with an impaired memory, keeping her from her former job at IBM, where she sold technology nationwide.

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