Get Mobile: Loriann's First Bike
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On Sunday May 4th we will be hosting a bike ride in Amherst NH to get Loriann Schonauer her very first bike! We will be starting a 12:00 noon at Maverick Square. To register for the ride simply donate $15.
Loriann is 30 years old and last summer was her very first time riding a bike. While most of us learned to ride a bike in our childhood we didn't face many of the challenges that she did.
Cerebral Palsy is a condition that causes physical disability usually affecting one side of the body. With Loriann it is the reason her first bike ride wasn't until a few months after her 30th birthday. Being born with a disability that affected her balance and the use of her right side, Loriann had trouble learning to walk, had trouble with her vision and even had extra difficulty learning to feed herself. Despite all of her setbacks she was able to graduate from high school and
college but learning to ride a bike was something she always thought of as impossible.
Struggling now with chronic pain the types of exercise her body will allow her to do are limited. She has to rely on other people if she wants to go anywhere, being unable to get a driver's license. Being able to get places under her own power, being able to move and get mobile under her own power would be a life altering event for her.
Loriann is 30 years old and last summer was her very first time riding a bike. While most of us learned to ride a bike in our childhood we didn't face many of the challenges that she did.
Cerebral Palsy is a condition that causes physical disability usually affecting one side of the body. With Loriann it is the reason her first bike ride wasn't until a few months after her 30th birthday. Being born with a disability that affected her balance and the use of her right side, Loriann had trouble learning to walk, had trouble with her vision and even had extra difficulty learning to feed herself. Despite all of her setbacks she was able to graduate from high school and
college but learning to ride a bike was something she always thought of as impossible.
Struggling now with chronic pain the types of exercise her body will allow her to do are limited. She has to rely on other people if she wants to go anywhere, being unable to get a driver's license. Being able to get places under her own power, being able to move and get mobile under her own power would be a life altering event for her.
Organizer
Nicole Robarge Mosier
Organizer
Nashua, NH
