Please Help me get to the beach
22 November 2016I have a love for swimming, surfing, and diving it has become increasing difficult since my last growing spurt and I am now 13years. I am wanting to be independent and making my own way on to the beach to be with family and friends.
to be honest being lifted by 2 caregivers from my chair as it reaches the sand and having to bottom shuffle from this point through the hot sand and down to the water is horrible. the sand is extremely hot and feels like sand paper let alone the cuts and tears my skin receives from the shells and stones.
Swimming is my running replacement, and physical fitness is my cardio which I need to be very fit to handle wearing my prosthetic legs.
I also suffer from the heat as I have lost parts of all 4 of my limbs, I have no hands and feet to sweat from which complicates wearing of big, heavy plastic and metal prosthetic legs (which cant be worn on sand) and with the energy it takes to move in them, this is complicated by my curved spine and the summer heat. It is important that I can get to the beach to cool off. and to be able to enter any beach with its uneven terrain on Waiheke Island where my family have lived for over 30yrs.
Waiheke being an island is surrounded by different terrains and bank mediums that surround all our beach's.
I love the free-ness, weightlessness I feel when I am in the water, this is one of the most beautiful feelings out there.