There was good-natured ribbing too, as Strong joked about Shaw’s driving skills as they played the game. They both have siblings who are able to do things they wanted to do but couldn’t: baseball for him, diving for her. “But it turns out we have quite a lot in common.” “I’m not that much older than him, but I didn’t know whether we would have anything in common,” Shaw says. The two spent hours getting to know one another as they played the game.
BEYOND CONTACT XBOX SERIES
Shaw played from her home, while Strong used a GO Kart (Gamers Outreach Kart) system outfitted with an Xbox Series S at a facility where he does physical therapy every other week.
It was almost like I was talking to myself a few years ago,” says Shaw, who chatted with Jordan Strong, 15, through a headset while the two played the auto racing game Forza Horizon 5. “It was actually really easy to talk to him. They star in “Beyond Xbox: A Player Like Me,” the next film in the Xbox “Beyond” series, which began with “ Beyond Generations.” She has never met anyone in person who also has this rare disease – though she had perused some online support forums – but recently she connected with a teenager in the U.S. This is a philosophy that also drives her own approach to the disease she lives with. “It’s about getting their symptoms controlled to a point where they can do the things they want to do.” “In pediatrics it’s very much about helping children live with what they have,” she says. She intends to pursue a career as a pediatric physician. She’s also six months out of medical school, doing a vascular surgery rotation as a junior doctor (the equivalent of a medical residency program in the U.S.). Mountain hikes are also part of her routine – though her backpack comes with a feeding tube. In the winter, she uses a wetsuit, but she doesn’t need to wear braces or tape in the cold water, which soothes her joints. But at 23, she focuses on what she can do, not what she can’t.Ī native of Scotland, she loves “wild” (in other words non-pool) swimming in nearby lakes (including Loch Ness) with friends and family. As a teenager, she found out she had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects connective tissue. She bruised easily, seemed to be accident-prone and fainted a lot. As a child, Megan Shaw was always falling.
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