Mother helps her daughter with cerebral palsy win a triathlon by swimming 500 yards pulling her in a raft

A nine-year-old girl with cerebral palsy came first in a triathlon on Sunday after completing the event with the help of friends and family - especially her mom.
A brain injury after she was born very premature left Cecilia Neimann from Lexexa, Kansas with severe cerebral palsy.
Mom Debbie Neimann vowed to do as much as she could to make her daughter’s life as normal as possible.

Brain-Injured Suffer Major Treatment Gap

Larry Boswell sat slumped in a wheelchair. His sweatpants were soiled, his T-shirt soaked in saliva. Flies buzzed around his head.

He was able to walk when he arrived at Illinois’ Cobden Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in 2008, government records show, something he can’t manage now. Speech therapy for the 57- year-old ended shortly after he was admitted, according to a lawyer trying to persuade Medicaid to transfer him.
While much of what Boswell says is incomprehensible, he managed a clear “no” when asked if he wanted to stay where he was. Cobden officials didn’t respond to telephone calls.
Boswell is one of nearly 244,000 brain-injured people consigned to nursing homes, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from U.S. Medicare and Medicaid statistics. He’s also on the front line in a national battle to get people like him out of facilities that aren’t equipped to care for them.