Secant May Alexander made a long trip to the starting line of United Airlines on Sunday in New York City, not only because it is from Sacramento, California.
The author of the 35-year-old children's book and the ambitious actress overcame a life of paralysis-to operate the first half marathon. More than 27,000 athletes are expected to tour 13.1 miles in Brooklyn and Manhattan hosted by New York Road.
Alexander is part of the organization's athletes program with disability, and will be directed in the race by Tunde Oyeneyin. The Billotone -based Billotone teacher inspired Alexander to learn to walk again and helped refine her sporting capabilities.
“I was part of the Piloton community, and I saw all these people in society run the races and do all these things,” Alexander told the “Post” newspaper.
“I told God,” you continued, “If he could restore walking, my movement, then I walk as I did not walk before. I was running like that I had never ran before, and I was dancing as I had not danced before.”
Alexander, who grew up in the nursery, said her first healthy case appeared when she was nine years old.
She has begun to suffer from stomach pain and placed in keeping food down. The problems worsened – and she was taken to the hospital at the age of twelve as she tried to go out.
“I couldn't get out of the car because the pain was painful,” Alexander recalls. “I couldn't stand, I couldn't breathe.”
Finally, when she was in high school, Alexander was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a chronic condition that disturbs and causes swelling of the digestive system.
Inflammation and ulcers can stimulate bad side effects such as diarrhea, stomach pain, cramps and bloody stools.
Alexander said: “I was the child who had to have two bags, not just a backpack, but an additional bag with additional underwear, with diapers, with the medicine, all these types of things, because I could not control my intestine and because I could be in severe pain,” Alexander said.
“I couldn't participate in activities as anyone else did because of the Crohn's disease, which had a great impact on my mental health at that time.”
Other conditions “just a type of accumulation, one by one” – the utensils are quick pulses when standing from sitting or lying and chronic pericarditis is when the cyst surrounding the heart becomes inflamed.
Then, in 2019, when she was about thirty years old, Alexander found herself in the hospital with severe glow of food poisoning. It is suspected of obtaining it from fruit juice.
It underwent colonoscopy so that doctors can assess the extent of the damage to its intestine – a rare reaction to the anesthesia used in the procedure, which is paralyzed.
“I couldn't move my arms, I couldn't move my legs. I couldn't speak,” Alexander described. “I had cognitive issues. I had memory problems. I couldn't tell you with simple things like mathematics. If you were asking me what is five plus two, I couldn't tell you.”
When she was discharged from the hospital about a month later, she could walk with pedestrians. Physiotherapy helped some, but she is still struggling to move her legs without help.
She suffered a large setback in 2021, she became paralyzed from the waist down.
Alexander said: “I really had depression, and I had no kind of real life, and I surrendered because I was sick throughout my life, and this was the straw that broke the back of the camel for me,” Alexander said.
In January 2022, I decided to make a change. Pointing out of the love of the “evil” star, Cenatha Evo, to Biloton, began taking the arms of light weights of her wheelchair with 3 pounds weights.
After weeks, she bought a Biloton bike and wandered her hands for hours a day. In April, she could slowly wandering with her legs, and took the first live trip with ONIN in June.
In November, her family helped her to buy Faki Biloton as she tries to walk alone.
She said: “We do not hear much about how patients and individuals who move from paralysis or any kind of injuries in which they are bedridden are not using muscles … Return to stimulate these muscles and reactivate these joints and the incredibly painful extent, but they were.”
Alexander focused on training and training – ultimately, walking on walking and running.
It ended its first 5,000 in June 2023 and several races since then.
Now, it is ready for the first half marathon. Alexander is the collection of donations for the NYRR team for children to support children who were “just homosexuals. The other. The other. Those who do not fit.”
She has come a long way – and she has to go a little, with ONIEN next to her.
“Sechonta May is an indelible force. ONIEN told” The Post “:” I cannot wait until I rejoice in every step to the finish line. “
