A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight

From the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight By ALAN SCHWARZ Published: June 18, 2008 SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....