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ING's Race for Something Better
Terri says...
"I want to express my thanks to Josh with PR Racing and the ING Marathon
for creating a Race for Something Better. My daughter is a student at Kenwood
K-8 Center and had a great time with her friends experiencing the
excitement of such a large event giving kids an opportunity to see
first hand the importance of health and fitness.
I would also like to
share my experience, as a prosthetist for over 20 years.The greatest
pleasure I have in my work is not just fitting a patient with a
prosthesis, but returning them to an active healthy lifestyle with no
to minimal limitations.
Jackie Sparber and Josh contacted me to bring
some of my prosthetic patients to participate. I was joined by Elena, a
15 year old high school student who just happens to also be a recent
below knee amputee. Elena was born with a club foot deformity
and after multiple surgeries over the years limiting her activity and
greatly affecting her confidence and general health, elected to have an
amputation last summer.
I fit Elena recently with her new prosthesis
with a dynamic response foot and cosmetic cover and skin. Elena no
longer walks with a limp and in her own words at the ING event 'for
the first time, no one even looked at me' she blended in with the
crowd!
Elena's feeling of accomplishment after running across the finish line
was something she did not think was possible before a Run for Something
Better.
Thank you again for giving us this opportunity and hope to have
more participants next year."
Terri Sparber Bukacheski
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ING's Race for Something Better
Elena says..
"I think the event was really fun and it was a good way to get kids
involved. This is something you don't really see us kids doing nowadays.
It was actually a great idea to have all the kids join in the race, even if it was only for a mile.
Everyone seemed to enjoy it and they felt like they were actually doing something worthwhile.
To me, I felt like nothing would come from this and I only did it because I was asked to and I didn't really want to say no, but I am quite happy now that I went through with it. If it wasn't for the race I think I still would not have realized my potential and I would not have known that I can take off where I left off before all these problems occurred.
I now want to begin to take part in more events like these, it makes me feel like I have actually accomplished something.
Hopefully if I keep working hard and keep practicing, I can soon take part in soccer again, I really do miss sports, even the running all around the field part."
Elena
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