People World champ hits the mark by Hilda Wong Like many other young women of her age, 22-year-old Alison Yu Chui-yee is fond of reading tarot cards to tell a fortune. But with an extraordinary past, she knows that fate is controlled in her hands, just as the way she won the world's champion title of wheelchair fencing despite the traumatic experience of losing part of her left leg because of cancer. The sportswoman is studying
geography and resource management at One can hardly tell the cheerful young woman has undergone a tragic experience that changed her life nine years ago, when she was diagnosed with bone cancer above her knee at the age of 11. She underwent a bone transplant
operation shortly after the diagnosis in She also needed to clean her inflamed
wound every day and wear a plaster, "It depended on whether I was willing to spend my time betting on this gamble. But even the doctor, who's a professional, could not tell me when I would recover. Why should I spend my time waiting?" she said. The alternative at the time was to have
an amputation. While her parents "I was 13, I didn't have any burden. I
didn't think about the consequences. It has taken Miss Yu two months to
learn using the prosthetic leg before she But the dramatic changes in her life
has led her way to wheelchair fencing, |
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