![]() Siblings David, Christy and Jess Wise go skydiving together for the first time with Christy's prosthetic leg. The former ski racer said she couldn’t have done it all without the help of her family - her twin sister Jessica and Olympian brother David. Later that night her right leg was amputated.Īfterwards she was flown to a military hospital in Texas, where she would spend the next two weeks, followed by eight months in rehab. ![]() ![]() But the propeller got my leg as I was swimming down.” Instead, I got hit by the front of the boat and tried to push off out of the way. That’s when I dove off my board and tried to swim away. I waved my headlamp fully expecting them to go to the right or left of me, so it took me a second to realize they were still coming right at me. “I saw it coming, and since we were paddleboarding at dusk, we had brought headlamps with us. There’s never any boat traffic because there’s no outlet and nowhere for the boats to go.”īut on that night, “a boat swerved into the cove,” she explained. “We’ve paddleboarded in their cove a hundred times. “The friends we were staying with had a house right on the water,” she said. During some downtime, the group took advantage of the access to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s just the bottom part of the leg.”Ĭhristy Wise pilots a plane over the Alps.Īn Air Force pilot stationed in Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, Christy drove down to the Florida panhandle with some friends, and her helicopter pilot boyfriend Tim Wiser, for a scuba diving class. But we call it a half because it’s not a full leg. And then my half is my ski leg - my moto leg - which doesn’t have a name yet. I also have a silicone leg, which is made to look like a real leg - so we call that leg Barbie. And then I have the water leg, Ariel, which is what I paddleboard and wakeboard with. ![]() I also have a running leg, which is the blade - you’ve maybe seen one like it on TV - and that one is named Bolt, after the Olympic Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. “I now have four and a half legs,” the Air Force pilot counted off. After that night she would not only have a newly expanded vocabulary (with words like amputee and hemoglobin levels among them), but also some new accessories. But it didn’t get as much use until April 2015 when a paddleboarding accident resulted in her losing her right leg. Christy Wise (R) is joined by her brother David during rehab in October 2015.Īs the older sister to Olympic halfpipe skiing champion David Wise, 28-year-old Christy Wise was already familiar with the word Paralympian.
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