'We're a team': South Bend gymnast's family helps chart a new life after deadly infection
SOUTH BEND â Anna Norquist launches from her wheelchair, her new prosthetic legs quivering with each step down a straight line through her parentsâ kitchen. It is practice lap No. 1, exactly two years since the day that an ambulance rushed the gymnast to Indianapolis with a rare, nearly fatal â and still mysterious â case of toxic shock syndrome. Lap No. 2. The singer Charlie Wilson, whom she fondly calls âUncle Charlie,â comes on the smart speaker. He's the same R&B artist whose concert sheâd gone to in Chicago just before she fell ill with the bac...
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