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Kiara's Story
My name is Kiara. I'm 8 years old. I had never been in a wheelchair until I got into a car accident. It all happened when I went to the mall to go shopping with my mom and my sister. We went to get something to eat. On our way home we got into a car accident. I was sleeping in the car. I woke up by smelling fire and I tried to get up to get out of the car but I figured out that I couldn't move my legs so I screamed for help. Somebody got me out of the car, laid me on the ground. Then the ambulance came and got me in a helicopter to get me to a hospital as fast as they could. Next, I had surgery on my back because my spinal cord was broken. That's why I couldn't move my legs. At first my sister couldn't walk too but now she can walk. My mom broke her leg and had surgery and she got better.
I got better and I went to Rehab to help me get stronger so I could go home. They made me do all these exercises like going up stairs by using my arms, getting in and out of my wheelchair, rolling on my own, and going on my fours. The hardest thing I had to learn to do was getting dressed on my own, in my chair. And thanks to my therapist Mike, Maria, Diane and Linnette that I got better and I learned how to do different things. While I was in Rehab I helped Jenny, the speech therapist to get a baby to eat.
I also got to go on some fun fieldtrips. Some of the fieldtrips were going to the pool, going to a bowling alley and going to the park. The park was my favorite fieldtrip because I got to do fun things like going on monkey bars and going down the slide.
On Friday I am going home. Next week. I am going to Disney World with my friend Alex, my mother, sister, my grandpa and my grandma. I am also having a pool party at my grandpa's house.
I learned that even though I am in a wheelchair I can still do all sorts of things.
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