After a morning of getting frustrated with the crap that is always having to walk with your leg in an ever moving never quite comfortable socket, I took my sorry ass to the pool, to a bike, and to a walking track.
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#111 Race Report: my very first event as a para-athlete!
I can’t even begin to tell you how emotional this day was on so many levels. Putting myself back into the sporting circles I once competed in as an able bodied athlete made me so proud of what I have already achieved. Yes… I cried as I crossed the finish line.. and I’m allowed!
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I’m so excited, scared… such a mixture of emotions. I think it’s the para-unknown. I remember a disabled athlete friend saying to me a while back how you have to learn real fast to put a lot of trust in strangers.. I’m now feeling that completely! I’ve chatted to the race organisers, we will work this first one out together!
Continue reading “#110 Road Trip: preparing for my first event as a para-athlete!”#98 How to keep a prosthetic leg on
There’s a lot of ways to attach body parts, I bet it isn’t something you have ever thought of before… and they give you huge issues when it’s warm weather!
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Today was leg day 1/3. Casting this week, test socket next week, actual leg the week after that. But.. I want to give the staff and general public at Dunedin’s St Clair salt water pool a special mention today because this is how to do disability PROPERLY.. in a compassionate, friendly, non segregation all manner. I wish everyone did it this well.
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