JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?NSTS?:iiwCquvO?ڮ/"GMÚZzPԇU1;$ԧ4fתѫ95 @]r S9H؎HlŞ9r*L}\JEZج\PQϨj8yr{P1Zۢ£kt2?Zٜ@g{#} DwW 8Ê$@.,jYP۫ NIH@ϸ)RAJ7M4-A<*Td sL%#&_pN&94MN$1犏iCXݓE7wuxݍ֑# bk-2\յFi 6!.g^FHMD):QS{5qhCsS$kgh8#@]׭خuV0a,W2cbqQ@Ēy'9$)gǽ pj7-n;1UNQI<,^}?0Xقd!sovSVM{5Rls>&'o`GX95rz׿+o jT2rX+o j9 qILJөľHJW6# 3۵Rj٦D*HQ2;A68s @+,d_pFFcN㍺/鶧̽:]Ӹ K),D2F6k_}S:\N-ԫo {wᧅ_B^ ]OT^»87CM4e8UGUQ=Ӎ56)C 0 \IW]G\ЁeV0N`k| ׾"{Bʐ7]}k]@_L .,9\H@d!F2O8CZhRww<⎧ZYǃ*6B;v5㎇j]WPSf9V}IȪJȖǡ:S󦳌`~&sQMW8i>*݋tcM.s5im8;\ub]HUk\蓐ĒEI'F# qj5}s0^OsGOèoڳ0\^?BIFFqڼ[sSd.'#ݜ+9c"I98i^?Mƶ 8WA^QfM@F98+V[aƑkbUG r;VMJky*1BweoYgrYCp _|G.3f( \WYP>ȑ|o1<}Ԛk`{\G94%E(cF8#\0MyW>e365}6!<\ïȥty~U6I@'p:TIRVf u${YvnHi=]3R=@pϐKPa(Mw<rM} >ensǠV:׹iPYi\J7u\SQ?,]L2^%rI}475Jگ,yOs\1M4hJ((m/4QJpPkv;,`:ɮ ,-.teAM[=0IBKLtrEI$~Fcm6' GYF7= +:H?J5w1,VׄDY}.h%7S1$~ݮ麌 JY@ϭz8; DjeGns֛=ιQ8e| rBּT= $a'z֥.!u:Ih ?kjnln$8#|A,Ȃ6ڟ*񭟇^ ¾x̒;bߙb7tY={+UV4=H{ ^ j iGpր灊f?IFy.Cj,N\u(9ejL!f|iy1Y0OjO'p-PhA# {ҀE.OZgJz Jx|Tu'zbt6Ի4U@8OJm6h+|fR;vAc <;P֔{)RR:ݼԭQ¼֠dgEchita Trauma Center where my mom works as a nurse. I was pretty groggy but I still remember all the care and attention I received there. Because my dad works in medical services and my mom too, I think I received special treatment, she says with a laugh.<br>Christi had fractured her L2 vertebra and dislocated her L3. Doctors were  cautiously optimistic that she would walk again. A week after doctors affixed a temporary rod-and-screw assembly to Christi s spine, she was moved to Our Lady of Lourdes Rehabilitation Hospital. Her gymnastics coach Joanne Thaw was at her bedside.<br> I knew if anyone was going to make it back from this, it would be Christi, says Joanne.  I don t train kids for the Olympics here. I train them for strength, for conditioning, for flexibility to compete. For Christi, I think some of those benefits she got here--the upper body strength, her competitiveness and her ability to focus--helped her to recover. <br>Her early rehab was stoked with an athlete s desire to push herself and was aided by her excellent physical conditioning and strength.<br> The rehab wasn t that much different from gymnastics, says Christi.  It s a win-or-lose situation. If you don t get first place in a gymnastics meet, you come back and you work harder. Every day in rehab, when I couldn t walk and then when I barely could, I reminded myself that I had to work a little harder. If I hadn t had that attitude, things might have turned out differently. <br>Christi broke her back in June, losing all feeling and function from the waist down. By July she was walking with braces and a walker.  I d regained some feeling, she says.  But I couldn t feel the difference between sharp and dull. My legs tingled and sometimes it felt like they d fallen asleep. It was strange to look at your legs and not feel them. <br>Progress was quick. In August she went back to school and reduced her rehab to only three times a week. In November she switched to a sports rehab center in Wichita, about 30 minutes from Hesston