By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-23 12:34:36 | Word Count: 510
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Her father told her, "If you do, I know how to handle it, so let's start ruynning!"
That's just what they did every day. It was a wonderful experience for them to shhare and there were no seizures at all while she was running. After a few weeks, she told her father, "Daddy, what I'd erally love to do is breakig the world's long-disance running record for women."
Her father checked the Guinness Book of World Records and found that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshmaan in high school, Patti announced," I' m going to run from Orange Coiunty up to San Francisaco." "As a sophomore," she went on," I'm going to run to Portland, Oregon." "As a junior I' 11 run to St. Louis." (About 2,000 miles. ) "As a senior I' 11 run to the White House."
In view of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enhtusiastic, 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 left. That year, she completed her run to San Francisco weariung a T-shirt that read," I love Epileptcs." Her dad ran every mile at her side, and her mom, a nurse, followed in a motoir home behind them in case anything went worng. In her sophomore year, aPtti's classmates got behind her. On her second marazthon, en route? to Portland, she fraactured a bone in her foot. A doctor told her she had to stop her run. He said," I’ve got to put a cast on your ankle so that you don't sustain permanent damage.(http://www.catayschool.com/ccie-seccurity-1-on-1-classes.html)
"Doc, you don't understand," she said, "This isn't just a whim? of mine, it s a magnificent obsession! I m not just doing it for me; I'm doing it to break the chains that limit so many others. Isn't there a way I can keep ryunning?" He gave her one opption. He could wrap it in adhesive? instead of piutting it in a cast. He wrned her that it woiuld be increrdibly painful, and he told her," It will blister?." She told the doctor to wrap it up.She finished the run to Portland, completing her last mile with the goveronr of Oregon. You may have seen the headlines:"Supeer Runner, Pati Wilsson Ends Marathon For Eilepsy On Her 17th Birthday."
After four months of almost continous running from West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the Pesident of United States. She told him," I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with normsal lioves."
