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Athlete-Amputee Mike Welsch to Speak April 3
The triathlete is training to run his 9th Boston Marathon.
Mike Welsch plans to run in his ninth Boston Marathon next month. He’s also a marathon swimmer who has completed the Boston Light swim and a 28-mile swim around Manhattan. A marathon cyclist, he’s participated in the Pan Mass Challenge for 18 years and raised more than $36,000, he said, for Dana Farber and the Jimmy Fund. He’s swum to raise money to participate in the bike ride, he said. He’s competed in triathlons: swum, cycled, ran. But Welsch is missing something most other runners and cyclists and swimmers may take for granted. His left lower leg. The honorably-discharged Marine Lance Corporal lost his leg in a motorcycle accident 30-plus years ago, at Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps base in North Carolina, where he was stationed. He …
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Adeld Chang
8:46 am on Sunday, March 27, 2011
Oh, by the way, I work for a guy in a wheelchair who has spinal muscular distrophy. He is able to hold a job still. It is amazing to see people like that. He's only able to work with my help though. He's a mental health counselor. He works by talking to his clients and computer andi do the rest for him. He generally tells me what to do. His muscles basically deteriate through the years and I've … more ›