The boy dreams of gold at the Paralympic Games Bashny.Net

At nine years of Cody Makkaslenda more than 20 prosthetic leg, so he takes part in many competitions, winning their healthy peers. To win the competition he has a prosthesis for running, walking and sitting. He was born without a tibia and knee bones, so it is only half of his legs amputated in infancy.

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1. young athletes regularly win healthy peers in sports. He says: "One day I will take part in the Paralympic Games and will win the gold medal».

Cody likes his tight schedule lessons in swimming, running, football, hockey and other sports. He dreams of becoming a doctor when she grows up. Cody is one of the fastest athletes in the women her age with prosthetic leg, like an Olympic sprinter from South Africa's Oscar Pistorius.

His 38-year-old mother Tina Makkaslend says, "Cody has a prosthesis for different occasions. Dentures for walks every day to school, short prosthesis seating and dentures for running. In the event he wins in older children. Whatever he was up to, we will make every effort to fulfill his dream. He will not let his disability get the upper hand over the other. "



2. 9-year-old Cody Makkaslend, with all their prostheses. He likes to show his collection to inspire other people with disabilities.



3. Cody (center) in competition with healthy swimmers in the pool.

Selection of artificial limbs and wheelchairs in local hospital Kolleyvilla, Texas. He needs to go to the doctors for a fitting to the hospital for 8 weeks, 4 hours a week, while the prosthesis is made. Home love Cody - swimming. It does not use any prosthesis. He won a gold and a silver medal in swimming for children with disabilities.

Tina says, "Cody has won many competitions. He trains in the pool three times a week after school with healthy children. They are faster than him, because his feet are used, but for him it is only an incentive to swim faster. We always check his time to help him beat his personal best. "



4. Cody with his mother Tina Makkaslend wears dentures for running like a Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius.



5. South African Oscar Pistorius at the Paralympics in Beijing. Cody once hoped to repeat his success.

Tina hopes to take Cody to London in 2012 for the Paralympic Games, in which the boy is going to take part. Cody suffers from a rare disease called sacral anomaly when the legs are short and bent in the other direction. Tina and her husband Mike have warned that the West need to amputate both legs to give the boy a chance to walk on artificial limbs. Tina says that his right leg was missing the tibia and the patella bone. Fibula was not enough to keep pace Cody without knee. As he sat, his legs sprawling along the sides. His left leg was better, but do not bend the knee. There was a chance of surgery, but there was no guarantee of success.

Cody's parents decided to give him the amputation of the lower parts of both legs in 15 months. After 2 month Cody got up and went to the prosthesis, which surprised the parents and doctors. Tina says that hardly anyone used to a prosthesis so quickly. Cody if waiting for a chance to get new legs to go. Now Cody has a lot of legs, including prostheses for seating, games, walking and running. All are made by specialists in prosthetics in the Texas Children's Hospital "Scottish Wright».

"Prostheses are very expensive, and Cody is growing very rapidly. We were very lucky that a specialized center provides us running dentures, the cost of which is not covered by health insurance. Many people can not afford artificial limbs "- says Tina.



6. The boy has a racing wheelchair racing wheelchair in Koleyville, Texas.



7. runners Cody in his prosthetic racing hopes to become an inspiration to other people with disabilities.



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