
Mallory Weggemann: 'Swimming saved my life,' says five-time Paralympic medalist
CNN
"I can't leave January 21, 2008, in the past," says Mallory Weggemann, a five-time Paralympic medalist swimmer.
That's when the then 18-year-old Weggemann hadd an epidural injection for back pain, with complications from the procedure ultimately leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. "It's with me every day in the four wheels beneath me."
Forced to negotiate a new way of living life, the Minnesota native remembers how she felt in the months that followed.

The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela – the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers on Thursday according to two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks.

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.











