Life was good to Shalini till four years ago when she was diagnosed with Rickettsial with Morts, a bacterial infection that affects one in a million. Fighting physical and mental trauma after being confined to the ICU, Shalini had no option but to go for amputation after falling prey to gangrene.
She is now getting trained under coach BP Aiyappa and gearing up to participate in the 10K run which she hopes to complete in 90 minutes. Shalini will be competing in the race wearing cotton-fibre blades loaned to her for the match by Ottobock, a German company producing blades. She has still has not found a replacement for her hands which she had to get amputated three years ago.
Shalini wrote about her traumatic experience in her blog , 'Soul Survived Intact', of going to the hospital for amputating her legs wearing bright purple nail polish on her blog. She wrote that if her legs were going, they better go in style. Shalini hopes to inspire people enough to support her and help her afford the blades she uses to run.
Posted by: Ravi Narasimhan <ravi.narasimhan.in@gmail.com>
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