MARIN COUNTY, Calif. – Kathy Ostrum beams when she talks about her 22 years as a sheriff’s deputy for the Marin County Sheriff’s Department.
“Best job I ever had,” she says with a grin, “I couldn’t believe they were paying me to do it.” So even now, even though she is retired, when she returned to the department to visit her old co-workers this week, the joy on her face was unmistakable.
This visit was different. It was the first time she’s come back since a devastating injury in June damaged her spinal cord so severely that she only now has small movement in her hands and feet.…