Wings4Life 2018

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Transcript

00:00I remember when I first started to join a gym it was you can't be a member here we

00:06don't have adaptive equipment for you I just went in and I learned my ways

00:10around the gym and I found out what works for me I'm Tiffany Adams I'm an

00:19ambassador for wings for life when I was 17 years old I was hit by a drunk driver

00:25and a head-on vehicle collision and it caused a traumatic spinal cord injury I

00:30was pronounced dead on scene it was like this black abyss everything went black in

00:36my world and I was asking God to let me live through this please let me live

00:40through this Tiffany growing up was probably one of the most challenging

00:46children on the planet she didn't want to follow rules she didn't want to listen so

00:52you'd put her to bed and she'd lay in the hallway with her head sticking out

00:56looking down the hall she didn't want to miss anything being only 17 years old

01:01and having a traumatic event like that occur it was a very scary feeling I knew

01:06that I was going to be a rough road but I wasn't going to let it hinder me and I

01:11just had to figure out a new way to live I dedicated my life towards my healing

01:19journey I started getting really really involved in fitness I worked at a gym for

01:27five years and then I ended up getting certified as a personal trainer because

01:31I fell in love with fitness so much and then wings for life asked me would I be

01:36interested in doing an interview to support wings for life and their cause and

01:40I'm like of course finally there's you know a foundation advocating for the cure for

01:47spinal cord injury actually putting in the footwork and getting the research done she

01:53calls me at 3 in the morning and I'm like oh why are you there and she goes was the wings

01:58for life race where you racing she goes no I go why don't you race

02:04it's very fortunate and blessed to take first for the women's wheelchair division and it's surreal

02:15when everyone's coming together for such a beautiful cause there's no other race

02:18like it everybody's racing at the same time across the globe that in itself is

02:23like so beautiful and more people should know about this race and more people

02:27should take part

02:31the healing journey it definitely is a conscious choice every morning I wake up

02:36and I choose to be happy I choose to be grateful because I feel so so grateful to be

02:41alive I knew that I had a calling and the spinal cord injury I feel literally

02:47pushed me into my purpose the people that I see that she inspires on her

02:52different social media and I'm talking for able-bodied and disabled she motivates a

02:57lot of people and she's never motivated me quite yet but I I couldn't be prouder of

03:06Tiffany I think it's important to advocate for a community that has been

03:11speaking up for many many years that hasn't necessarily been fully heard yet

03:15I believe that there is a cure and to be able to advocate for a cure for spinal

03:22cord injury is important in my life am I running yet no but will I be in the

03:28future I pray to God's self