I saw a woman last week jogging slowly on her prosthetic limb, below the knee. Last time I went skiing, in Keystone in the beginning of April, I saw a middle-aged man skiing on one ski with three or four of his friends. Yeah, he fell down and also took more breaks, but they understood and waited for him. The fact that he was out there doing it was awesome. There is a guy on the skiing forum that I frequent that was paralyzed in Iraq from the waist down. So he monoskis. While competing in the X-games this past winter he broke a femur. Did not realize it with no working nerves. Now he has been picked up by a production company to do a show on different activities like downhill mountain wheelchair racing, and seated waterskiing. His motto is "Die Living". And he has a girlfriend. I guess it boils down to how someone is willing to approach life.
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