Pick a point!





Kelly Bruno, you could say, is actually one of the luckier ones. Her disability (if you could call it that) was not caused by any major injury. Kelly was born missing two toes and a bone from her right leg. Her parents chose to have her leg amputated when she was six months old, because the doctor felt that Kelly would be able to function better with a prosthesis than a brace.

Kelly recieved her first fake leg at nine months old, and by the time she was thirteen months, was able to walk. Unlike some others, she thought her prosthesis was neat, and her friends agreed. At looked like a normal leg, extending from just below the knee down. At ten years old, Kelly's feelings towards her artificial leg changed. She then lived in South Africa, and the prosthesis she had didn't fit properly. At school, she fell and hyperextended her right knee during a game.

At twelve years, it got even more horrible. Kelly once again lived in the United States, and the upper right-leg's bone began to curve. One word: operation. Afterward, she'd have to wear some metal contraption and no prostethis. After the operation, her whole entire leg was killing her.

In the seventh grade, Kelly finally got her metal whatchamacallit off, but had to wait for her leg to heal before she could wear her artificial leg, so she was on crutches. The second day of school, it rained, and Kelly's wet crutches slipped on the floor in the school, and she fell, hard. The bone cracked all the way through. She was forced to have a whole 'nother operation.

When everything was finally healed and Kelly was able to reclaim her prosthethis, she went to physical therapy to recondition her upper leg muscle. She got back into sports, and last summer, she began running. She started by winning first place in two sprints at the 1998 Orthotics and Prosthetics National Summer Games. Soon she was training at the ARCO Olympic training center near San Diego and was competing in England against disabled representatives in sixty-two countries. She nabbed second place in both of her races.

Kelly is now aspiring to break records and make the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games in Austraila. New kids in Kelly's P.E. class start asking questions, but Kelly's friends say, "Yeah, Kelly can do anything."