After 16 day of an agonizingly dull process , a paralytic woman has become the first mortal tocomplete a battle of Marathon in a bionic suit of clothes . Talk about an inspiration .
Claire Lomaswas paralyzed from the chest down in 2007 when she was thrown off her gymnastic horse and broke her neck , back , and ribs , and puncture a lung . Ordinarily , the great unwashed who sustain these kinds of injury will never take the air again . Many do n’t even survive .
But Lomas did . And after all-encompassing rehab , she found her direction into aReWalksuit . The $ 70,000 bionic system use apparent motion detector powered by an onboard computing machine organization to do the unthinkable : Enable people to take the air who ca n’t do so on their own . When the person fall apart the outfit shift her balance , significative of wanting to take a step , the lawsuit responds the way an able - bodied person ’s joints would .
Which is miraculous enough for just receive around the house . But Lomas was determined to take the ReWalk on a 26.2 mile grind . Which is why she trace up with about 36,000 others on April 22nd at the jump of the London Marathon . She walk about two miles each day , accompany by her married man and 13 - month - honest-to-god girl . A little over two weeks subsequently , she crossed the cultivation line .
Lomas wo n’t receive a medal . She wo n’t be included in the official competition results . But while hoi polloi polish off marathons all the time , maybe none of them can say they have the best quite as much to get there . [ The Telegraph ]
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