"What doesn't kill me will make me stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche

My friend Cathy (she who putts 51) and her husband came for dinner last night and told us about an interview on CBC Radio with a remarkable athlete: Monique van der Vorst.

WOW! What a fabulous woman.  This is really what it's all about ...

"She was 13 when a simple operation went inexplicably wrong and she found herself unable to walk. But Monique Van de Vorst concentrated on what she could do becoming a paralympic athlete, excelling at handcycling. Still she was beset by random events that injured her further, she was hit by a car, then hit by a bike and then one day she experienced some feeling in her feet and 12 years after being paralyzed, she was re-learning to walk. 

Now, she's training with an elite women's cycling team, and plans on being in Rio de Janiero for the 2016 Olympics. Doctors have no explanation for the reversal of Monique's paralysis. And she doesn't get it either."  CBC Radio Interview

This is her website: Monique van der Vorst website

Keep her in mind and cheer her on in 2016.