Mallory Weggemann: 'Swimming saved my life,' says five-time Paralympic medalist
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"I can't leave January 21, 2008, in the past," says Mallory Weggemann, a five-time Paralympic medalist swimmer.
That's when the then 18-year-old Weggemann hadd an epidural injection for back pain, with complications from the procedure ultimately leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. "It's with me every day in the four wheels beneath me."
Forced to negotiate a new way of living life, the Minnesota native remembers how she felt in the months that followed.
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