艾米珀迪living beyond limits.docVIP

假如生活是一本书，而你是作者，那么你会希望自己编写出怎样的故事？而当年正是这个想法改变了我的人生。 If the life were a book and you were the author,how would you want you story to go? Thats the question that changed my life for ever. 我在炎热的拉斯维加斯的沙漠中长大，我所向往的是自由自在的生活。我做着周游世界的白日梦，想象着能够住在下雪的地方，并把所有想讲的故事一一拍摄出来。19岁那年，高中毕业后的一天，我真的去了下雪的地方，成为了一名按摩治疗师。这份工作只需要用到手，旁边就是按摩桌。那时的我能去任何地方。这是人生中第一次，我感到自由、独立、安全。生活就在我的掌控之中。 Growing up in a hot Las Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free,I would day dream about travelling 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 nineteen, the day after I graduate high school, I do 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 would go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life. 但这时我的生活出现了逆转。一天我感觉自己的了流感便提早回到了家，可是不到24小时，我住进了医院，要靠呼吸机维持生命，并且被告知只有不到2%的存活可能。几天之后，我陷入了昏迷，医生诊断为病毒性脑膜炎，一种疫苗可以预防的血液感染。在接下去的两个半月里，我失去了脾脏、肾脏，失去了左耳的听力，两腿膝盖以下被截肢。当我的父母用轮椅把我从医院推出来的时候，我感觉自己像是被拼起来的玩具人。 That is until my life took a detour. I went home from work one day with the thought I was the flu, and less then 24 hours later, I was in the hospital on life support, with less than 2% of chance of living. It wasnt until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctor diagnosed me with bacterial meninitis, a vaccine preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months Ive 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 had been pieced back together like a patchwork doll.? 那时我以为最坏的日子已经结束了，但是几周之后，当我第一次看到我的新腿，这才意识到远没有结束。我的支撑棒是笨重的金属块，它用管子与踝关节和黄色的橡胶脚固定在一起，从脚趾到踝关节上凸出来的橡胶线，看上去像静脉。我不知道自己想要什么，但绝对不会是这个。当时我的妈妈在我身旁，我们抱头痛哭，泪如雨下。 Ithought the worse was over, until weeks later I when I saw my new legs for the first time. The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles an