Amy Purdy's Life

Amy Purdy asks, “If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?” That is the question that changed her life forever. When Amy was 19, she moved to a place where it snowed which had been her dream since she was a little girl, she finally felt free and in control of her life. One day, Amy was coming home from work with what she thought was the flu, under 24 hours later she ended up in a hospital with a less than 2 percent chance of living. She was diagnosed with meningitis and lost her spleen, kidneys and even both of her legs below the knee. Amy thought of how she was going to achieve her dream of traveling the world and snowboarding with her disability. Months later, she knew that she had to let go of