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if you apply for a book
and you with often
how would you like your story
that's the question it's changed my life
really not enough hot las vegas desert
all i wanted was to be free
i would daydream
about traveling the world
living in a place where it snowed
and i would secure all of the stories that would go on to tell
at the age of nineteen
it did after i graduate high school
i needed to your face risks mad
and i became and size their yes
with this job all i needed when my hands
and then side table by my side
and
keep joe anywhere
for the first time in my life
i felt
independence
and completely
in control of my life
that is
and to my wife to keep the choice
i went home from work early when day with what i thought was there for you
and less than twenty-four hours later
i was in the hospital
on life support
with less than eighty percent chance of living
it wasn't out days later
as a way to comment
at the doctors diagnosed me
but bacterial meningitis
vaccine preventable blood infection
over the course six and a half months
i lost my spleen
my kidneys
if your email last year
and both of my legs
polygamy
but my parents
we'll be out of the hospital
high quality and he started out there
like a patch-work dol
i thought the worst is over
and tell weeks later when i saw my new place for the first time
the caps we're
forty blocks of metal
with trade sports and together for the eagles
and the yellow robert phillips
with the raisin bran line from mexico today april
to look like a baby
i didn't know what to expect but it wasn't expecting that
with my mom
by my side
and tears
streaming down our faces
i strapped on these trump the way through
and i think that
they were so painful
and sell confining
college it being closed
how how can i add we're going to travel the world in these things
how did i ever going to live
like for the bench here and stories as i always wanted
and how was i going to snowboard again
that day's i went home
i crawled into bed
and this is what my life that fight for the next few months
need passed out
escaping from reality
with my legs resting by my side
i was absolutely
basically
and emotionally
wrote
on and in order to move forward
tax electro
and building
and braids
in uni
and that's when it dawned on me
i don't have to be five point five anymore
activists are not worth it
history does that work for the depending on who i was thinking
advice no quick end
my feet aren't going to get cold
and that's a bomb attack
i can make my feet
the size of all the issues that are on the soundtrack
so their benefits here
it is this morning that i asked myself out
life defining question
it might like
workbook
and i
without often
how would i want this story to go
and they begin to daydream
i_d_ turnpike added as a little girl
and i imagine myself
walking gracefully
helping other people to maturity
and snowboarding and
and i did you see myself
carving gallon and not a powder
i can actually feel it
i can feel the wind against my face
and a beat
admire a senior partner
as if it were happening and that
very moment
and that is when
and you chapter in my life
four months later how does back up on this network
although things in a go quite as expected
my knees and making close when it then and at one point
i traumatize all this years on death row left when
i found and my legs still attached to my snowboard
lying on the map
and i was on top of that stuff
i was so shocked as missus schott since everybody else and as
so discouraged
i knew that if i could find the right her feet
that i would be able to do this again
and this is what i've learned
better borders an obstacles
can only do two things
stop us in our tracks
or two
force us to get creative
i do your research is still can't figure out what kind of makes used to find any
resources that could help me
i decided to make a characteristic
my weight maker at night the random parts together
and we may have hurt the that i could snowboarding
we'll see
rusted bolts
rather
what
and neon think duct tape
and yes i can change the internal parts
in eighteen states and the best twenty-first repeated ever received
and you can eat my dad
it allowed me to farmington sick n
i started snowboarding
and i went back to work that i went back to school
in two thousand five acre founded a non-profit organization
for youth and young adults with physical disabilities so they can get involved
with action sports
from their had the opportunity to get a salad africa
where and how to play she is on thousands of children speech civic
attend school
and just this past february
i wired
two back-to-back world cup gold medals
that's made me
bathhouse ranked at captive female snow boarder in the world
eleven years ago
when i lost my legs
i had no idea what to expect
enough i want to change my situation
i would have to see no
because my legs having disabled me if anything baby enabled me he forced me
to rely on my imagination
and to believe
in the possibilities
and that's why i believe let our imaginations can be used as tools for
breaking through borders
because in our minds we can do anything
and we can't be anything
it's the leading industries
and the scene our fears head-on
it allows us to live our lives beyond five minutes
and all that today is about innovation with outboard urs
i have to say
in my life
innovations or even possible
beach house admit workers
i've learned that
orders are where the actual adn
now also where in nineteen eighteen
on this story
begins
so that's not what i would like to tell you submit today
is that maybe instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations
as something negative or bad
we can begin to look at them as lessons
magnificent yes they can be used to ignite imaginations
and help us go further their week ever knew we could uh...
it's not about
breaking down borders
sebab christine affect them
and seen
but amazing places
in my friends