“You can discriminate me on so many levels. I’m disabled, I’m female, and I’m gay… but I’m just stoked about who I am now,” Dani Burt, U.S. Champion in the adaptive division of the USA Surfing Championships in Oceanside, California.
Dani Burt never thought she would be a surfing champion. But earlier this month, the 31 year old clinched her title as U.S. Champion in the adaptive division of the USA Surfing Championships in Oceanside, Calif.
She incurred life-threatening injuries including a ruptured spleen, fractured neck, broken ribs, and collapsed lungs. While Burt remained in a five-week drug-induced coma, doctors amputated her right leg above-the-knee to help her battle acute respiratory syndrome in her lungs. But it wasn’t until she saw a video of Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy, a double leg amputee, that Burt started toying with the idea of participating in the action sports she had loved before her accident.
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