Reggie Showers
As a youngster, Reggie Showers was always challenging himself – he loved climbing on the boxcars at a rail yard near his home in Philadelphia. At the age of 14, however, the power lines hanging above the box cars surged 13,000 volts of electricity through his young body. To save his life, the doctors had to graft skin onto his third degree burned arms and cut off both his legs below the knee. To Reggie, this was just another challenge.
“You would think a kid would just want to give up but … I never once shed a tear about it…There’s a reason why I’m here,” Showers said. “For all intents and purposes, I should be dead.” (espncdn.com)
Now 41, Stacey Kozel was diagnosed with lupus when she was 19 years old. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. The symptoms for Stacey, as for some other Lupus patients, has been cyclical, every couple of years she would have a “flare-up”.
