“We know that physical fitness helps young girls build confidence and friendships,” she tells us. “I think it’s just so important for people to know that this organization exists.”
When Amy Purdy was 19, her life changed forever. A hospital visit for flu-like symptoms led to a diagnosis of septic shock, whereby Purdy was put into a medically-induced coma and given the prognosis of a two percent chance of survival. It was only after numerous blood transfusions and the removal of her ruptured spleen that doctors diagnosed the teen with meningococcal meningitis. She had survived.
While the idea of starting an elite-level training regimen in your 30s might seem unfathomable to many — okay, most — of us, Purdy had already been lobbying to get adaptive snowboarding included in the Paralympics for half a decade. In 2005 she co-launched the nonprofit Purdy has been described by many people as inspirational; she admits to us that at age 39, she’s already ticked off the major goals of her lifetime bucket list. She explains that she thinks of inspiration as a contagious entity, and she tries to surround herself with it in order to give it back to others. Through her nonprofit, she tells us that she’s constantly engaging with “people who are making things possible for themselves.
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