Imagine having no arms no stretch in the morning, to help you scratch that itch, to allow you to wrap your arms around your loved ones. Imagine having no legs to kick pebbles down to Street, to walk or run, to bicycle or skateboard, or get you from point A to point B. Then imagine both at once, which is what nick Vujicic has faced his whole life. Have you heard something like this before?
Nick Vujicic I was born with no arms and legs-but he doesn't let the details stop him. The Brave 26- year -old --- who is mainly torsa--- plays football and golf, swims and surfs, despite having no limbs.
Nick has a small foot on his left hip which helps him balance and enables him to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up between his toes.
`I call it my chicken drumstick,`joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. `I'd be lost without it.'
Due to his faith as an Evangelical Christian, Nick has chosen to remain a virgin until marriage.
`He's very modest but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time,' sad mix friend and publicist Steve Apple, from Los Angeles.
`He would love to get married and start a family but he's waiting for the right girl to come along.'
Water sports aren't only thing-he also plays golf with the club tucked under his chin, and is a use fan of the English premier league .
His parents decided not to send him to a special school- a decision he said was very heart for him, but which may have been the best decision they could have made for him.
when Nick was born his father was a shocked that he left the hospital room to vomit. He is distraught mother couldn't bring her self to hold him until he was four months old.
His disability came without any medical explanation - a rare occurrence cal phocomelia - and Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happened to them. 'My mother was nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she is still blamed herself,' he said.
'It was so hard for them but right from the start they did their best to make me independent.'
'My dad put me in the water at 18 months and give the courage to learn how to swim.'
'I also got really into football and sketchboarding, I totally love the English premier league you.
nix father was a computer programmer and accountant and he taught his little son how to type with his toe at just 6 years old. hi maugham invented a special plastic device that meant he could hold a pen and pencil.
(To be continued)..
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