Kenny Easterday is a man that was born with a condition called sacral agenesis. Because of this his spine never fully formed and doctors had to amputate both his legs. He was offered prosthetic legs though he turned them down. As of now Kenny is 35, 14 years older then doctors predicted him to live (as most people with sacral agenesis die at a young age) and does many things one would not think possible without legs such as playing bowling and getting around without the use of a wheelchair or other device (as shown in the photo above Kenny walks using his hands).
The reason I chose to blog about this, I think, is both because this is not the type of thing that one normally sees people with "disabilities" doing and that it also becomes very inspiring to hearing about and/or see him going about daily life (without any assistance) with this "disability" when most other people would give up on being independent. It makes you think, "If he can do that, maybe things are not as bad as they seem in my life." Or something to that effect. In a way it's sad that that we can feel better about ourselves because we're "normal" and someone else is not but that's not quite it in some cases such as this one (at least in my opinion). In the case of Kenny I believe we draw inspiration from that fact he CAN do these thing and he DOES even though it may be harder for him to do so then someone with legs. It may be sad to us that he doesn't have legs, but in his view he's perfectly fine and capable of doing all these things that he was most likely told he could never do. I think this story gives us belief, a greater belief in ourselves that we can do more then we think we can if we just try.
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