Run Patti Run
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At a young and tender age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor that she was an epileptic. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day she smiled through her braces and said, Daddy what Id really love to do is run with you every day, but Im afraid Ill have a father told her, If you do, I know how to handle it, so lets start running!Thats just what they did every day. It was a wonderful experience for them to share and there were no seizures at all while she was running. After a few weeks, she told her father, Daddy, what Id really love to do is break the worlds long-distance running record for father checked the Guiness Book of World Records and found that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti announced, Im going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco. (A distance of 400 miles.) As a sophomore, she went on, Im going to run to Portland, Oregon. (Over 1500 miles.) As a junior Ill run to St. Louis. (About 2000 miles) As a senior Ill run to the White House. (More than 3000 miles away.)In view of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply an inconvenience. She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had year, she completed her run to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that read, I Love Epileptics. Her dad ran every mile at her side, and her mom, a nurse, followed in a motor home behind them in case anything went her sophomore year, Pattis CLaSSmates got behind her. They built a giant poster that read, Run, Patti, Run! (This has since become her motto and the title of a book she has written.) On her second marathon, en route to Portland, she fractured a bone in her foot. A doctor told her she had to stop her run. He said, Ive got to put a cast on your ankle so that you dont sustain permanent , you dont understand, she said. This isnt just a whim of mine, its a magnificent obsession! Im not just doing it for me, Im doing it to break the chains on the brains that limit so many others. Isnt there a way I can keep running? He gave her one option. He could wrap it in adhesive instead of putting it in a cast. He warned her that it would be incredibly painful, and he told her, It will blister. She told the doctor to wrap it finished the run to Portland, completing her last mile with the governor of Oregon. You may have seen the headlines: Super Runner, Patti Wilson Ends Marathon For Epilepsy On Her 17th r four months of almost continuous running from West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of United States. She told him, I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with normal lives.I told this story at one of my seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came up to me, stuck out his big meaty hand and said, Mark, my name is Jim Wilson. You were talking about my daughter, Patti. Because of her noble efforts, he told me, enough money had been raised to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform yourself in a state of total wellness?※本文作者:佚名※
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