"After overcoming 19 surgeries to fix his spina bifida and countless therapies, but above all, a battle against the inaccessibility of the public beaches of the Mexican Caribbean for athletes with disabilities, Isaac Rendon thought he was ready to participate in the World Surf League, to be held in Baja California Sur, and which this year, for the first time, included an adaptive surfing category, but it was not so."
"But Isaac survived, although he had no mobility in his legs. He went to kindergarten on an adapted skateboard. Over the years, he got a walker. Thirteen more surgeries followed, most to replace the valve he'd had in his brain since birth to regulate cerebrospinal fluid. In one of those procedures, when he was still a child, he was in a coma for two weeks."
"When he regained consciousness, the left side of his body was unresponsive, and he had to leave the operating room in a wheelchair. So his right hand remained his only functional limb. And so, with his right hand, he achieved more than any of his classmates: he graduated with a degree in culinary arts, and his knowledge of textures an"
Isaac Rendon was born with spina bifida myelomeningocele and underwent an urgent surgery at birth to close exposed meninges. Early treatment required travel to Puebla, six surgeries, four months hospitalized, heavy costs, and a prognosis of six months to live amid dismissive specialist comments. He survived without leg mobility, used an adapted skateboard in kindergarten, later a walker, and endured thirteen additional surgeries mainly to replace a cerebrospinal fluid valve. A childhood operation left his left side unresponsive and he used a wheelchair, leaving his right hand as his only functional limb. He earned a culinary arts degree and sought to compete in the World Surf League's new adaptive category but faced inaccessible Mexican Caribbean beaches and was unable to participate.
Read at english.elpais.com
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