Kind World #13: 'Take Me Back To Venice'

Published: Jan. 15, 2015, 4:35 a.m.

As Parkinson\u2019s disease worsened for Bernard Michaels, his family took him on a final trip to Europe. Early in the trip, a slip in Venice, Italy landed him in the hospital. His daughter, Sonia, set out with a collapsible wheelchair to meet him, but seventeen staired footbridges, slick with rain, stood between them. Fortunately, others took notice.