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If your like were

how would you want your story to go?

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Growing in a hot Las Vegas desert,

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I would daydream about travelling the world, living a place where it snowed.
I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell

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At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I need were my hands and my massage table by my side. and I could go anywhere.

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For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life

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I went home from work earyly one day with that I thought was the flu and less than 24 hours later I was in a hospital
on life support, with less than 2% chance of living.

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It wasn’t until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventalbe

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Over the course of two and a half months, I lost my spleen, my kndneys, the hearing in my left and
both of my legs below my the knee

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When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital, I felt like I had been piesced back together like a

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until weeks later when I saw my new legs for the first time.

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The calves were bulky blocks of mental with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with the raised rubber line

to look like a vein.

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but i wasn’t expecting that.

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With my mum by my side and tears streaming down our faces, I strapped on these chunky legs and I stood up.

that all I could think was how am I ever going to travel the world in these things.

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how was I ever going

and stories as I always wanted?
And how was I goging to snowboard again?

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That day, I went home, I crawled into bed and this is what my life looked like for the next few months. Me

escaping from reality with my legs resting by my side.

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But I knew that

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And that is when it dawned on me that I didn’t have to be 5,5 ft. anymore.
I could be as tall as I wanted, or as short ad I wanted depending on who I was dating.
And if I snowboarded again,

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And best of all, I thought

that are on the sales rack and I did! So there were benefits here.

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that life defining question.

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And I began to daydream.

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I daydreamed like I did as a little girl and I imagined myself walking gracefully, helping other people through my journey and snowboarding again.

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And I did’t just see myself carving down a mountain of power, I

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as if it were happening in that very moment.

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