Started Swimming Using Legs, Win Medals Without Legs

Sometimes many people become powerless to achieve their target. However, some people changed the vulnerable situation also an advantage for them to achieve their target. Morgan Stickney is the gold medalist who desired to swim at the Olympics while having two legs. But after becoming impaired by losing her legs also she has achieved her aim by swimming and winning medals in Paralympics. The champ Morgan is a swimmer at all the periods, with two legs, without a left leg, and two legs. Before losing her leg, Morgan was the top 20 ranked player nationally.

Several Surgeries Make Her Lose A Leg

The sesamoid bones and two jelly bean size bones under the left big toe were broken for Morgan. It became unable to be resolved around five years after four surgeries. The injury, which is considered a minor injury, has made Morgan lose her leg.

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Dependent On Painkillers

While feeling stressed, everyone will look for a way to relax to reduce the stress level by diverting the mind to enjoy. Likewise, while suffering from pain also, many people will choose the way of painkillers to deal with distressing pain. Morgan is also dependent on painkillers to reduce the suffering due to the pain. There was a time when she felt she had overdosed and the addiction to the painkiller became epidemic for her. Hence she decided to eliminate the painkillers from her life.

Win As National Champion Twice

After losing the left leg also, Morgan came back to swimming. Not only as a swimmer practicing in the pool, but she also won as a National Champion two times by competing without one leg.

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When The Things Go Up, Blood Refused To Flow Down

While taking part in the competition by skipping aside the worries about the lost leg, again, Morgan faced losing her leg. Again she started to experience the familiar pain in her right foot.  The same pain gave her the same loss with more distress. There was a rare vascular disorder diagnosed in the right leg Morgan. The lack of blood flow to the foot from the mid-calf gets her to the leg amputation, and she lose her leg again.

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Terrified While Losing The Second Leg

Losing the right leg was the only choice for Morgan. But losing the right leg was more painful than losing the left leg for her. As Morgan suffered from pain for several years before losing the left leg, she was almost ready for the left leg amputation. But while getting to know about the right leg, Morgan was destroyed physically and emotionally. The loss of her right leg made Morgan feel her life was crashing down, and she was hopeless.

 

One Year Training Gives Two Medals In Tokyo

Coming back as champion after getting out from the pain of physically and emotionally destroyed moments is not simple. But Morgan had returned to swimming again and trained to swim like a champ without her two legs. It must be shocking to hear that Morgan had taken only one year of training to win the gold medals in Tokyo as a Paralympics player.