第16期：Amy Purdy: Living Beyond Limits

Amy Purdy: Living Beyond Limits 埃米•珀迪：人生不设限 By Amy Purdy If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That&`&s the question that changed my life forever. Growing up in a hot Las Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell. At the age of 19, the day after I graduate high school, I moved to a place where it snowed and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time of my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour ). I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu and less than 24 hours later, I was in a hospital, on life support with less than a 2% chance of living. It wasn&`&t until days later as I lay in a coma ) that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis ), a vaccine )-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen ), my kidneys, the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee. When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital I felt like I have been pieced back together like a patchwork ) doll.