Tyler Brown, a girl a who had her arm amputated due to a tumor, has returned back to swimming. Just one month after the amputation, she continued. The 14 year old did not let her circumstances stop her. She is from Atlanta Georgia.
One day, doctors found a cancerous tumor in her right arm. The tumor was initially removed but became malignant, they had no other choice but to amputate her arm to keep cancer from spreading.
Tyler a high school swimmer, was medically cleared to get back in the pool, and then she immediately competed in the swim meet in her high school, the Elite Scholars Academy in Clayton County.
“It didn’t affect me in any way,” she told Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Her family supported her, and helped her back to school by organizing “one arm parties” with her friends and classmates.
She performed well in the competition, but admitted it wasn’t as it used to be.
“I do feel like I have to work harder than my two-arm counterparts, but it’s work I’m willing to do,” she said. “I am really competitive. I want people to count me out. Then I want to prove them wrong.”
Tyler is truly a resilient young woman who wouldn’t give up.
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