Tomorrow morning, Nadine McNeil will be in her fourth New York City marathon. Unable to use her right arm and right leg after a stroke when she was 8, she uses a handcycle. She’s not, as a New York Times article notes, the only member of her household who’ll be the marathon: Her 18-year-old son Tyler, who’s autistic, is running his first one. Tyler has won “dozens of medals” in the Special Olympics and especially for swimming; Penny Shaw, the 71-year-old director of Project Happy, which first noted Tyler’s athletic ability, describes him as “’saved by sports.’”
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