When Razelle Botha could walk, she spent a lot of time dancing.
She’d slip into her strappy heels and dance the Cha-Cha-Cha, the Mambo and the Swing.
Dancing made her feel beautiful, passionate, complete.
“That’s what I find most heartbreaking,” says Botha, leaning forward in her wheelchair, glancing down at her feet, one of them lifeless, both of them swollen in their summer flats. Continue Reading »
Ryan Creech can’t walk, but he’s driven to move forward.
Creech — injured three years ago in an all-terrain vehicle accident — runs the telephone switchboard at University of the Cumberlands, is studying for a master’s degree in teaching, gives guitar lessons and volunteers at his church.
He’s getting therapy at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington and fighting to regain as much leg movement as possible. Continue Reading »
LINCOLN — Larry Schroetlin rarely came across problems he couldn’t solve.
He was an auto mechanic and loved to fix things. Townspeople depended on him and he always delivered, every time, even if it meant skipping lunch or Christmas dinner to change a friend’s tire.
He married his high school sweetheart, raised three sons and owned the only repair shop in Butte, Neb. He was an active man, piloting single-engine aircraft through the 1980s until it got too expensive. Continue Reading »
The Winter Olympics were a huge success, bringing Canadians together as never before, shining a new light on our province, and proving that yes, we can do it.
There is a good chance, however, that Vancouver 2010 will be known as much for the Paralympics that followed as for the Olympics themselves.
For the first time in the history of the Games, disabled athletes were celebrated not for the adversity they had overcome, but for their athletic abilities. Continue Reading »
Three months ago, 11-year-old Mackenzie Saunders injured her spinal cord
while playing soccer and was unable to walk.
The times that followed could have been her darkest hours. Instead, her irrepressible attitude has made her a star.
Her pain required three-times-a-day medication. The physical therapy toward getting her to walk might have brought tears to the eyes of someone twice her age. Continue Reading »
NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. – A North Fort Myers High School track athlete is breaking boundaries and inspiring even her toughest competitors. Continue Reading »
Kenny Blaney, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a Fairview Beach diving accident in 1996, has now started his second company in the area
“The People vs. Larry Flynt” helped take Kenny Blaney from the depths of despair to where he is today–a Fredericksburg-area entrepreneur who won’t let his disability stop him.
Blaney’s life forever changed on Aug. 25, 1996, a warm summer day that the 24-year-old Chancellor High School graduate spent drinking beer and hanging out with friends on a boat at Fairview Beach. Continue Reading »
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Research looks at nerve repair
Ryan Creech can’t walk, but he’s driven to move forward.
LINCOLN — Larry Schroetlin rarely came across problems he couldn’t solve.
A SPLIT-second decision changed Anthony Bartl’s life forever.
Three months ago, 11-year-old Mackenzie Saunders injured her spinal cord
Kenny Blaney, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a Fairview Beach diving accident in 1996, has now started his second company in the area