Erica had been a gymnast since she was a child. At fifteen she made the Olympic team and took a bronze medal. Now she was getting ready for the next Olympics, training hard and getting ready for the tryouts. Then tragedy struck........performing a backflip on the balance beam, she slipped and fell, breaking her neck. She was left fully paralyzed from the waist down and limited use of her arms and hands.
Never one to give up, she agreed to be a study subject for any procedures that may restore her body to normal. Numerous attempts were made, with no success. Then a new procedure was developed, one that promised to repair her severed nerves and give her back use of her arms and legs. But something went wrong. The radiation to regrow the nerves miniaturized her to five inches tall. A side effect of the miniaturization restored her damaged body, and she use her legs and arms again. Soon, she was performing better than ever on television specials on sports channels and talk shows. Her size, however, prevented her from living any sort of normal life. Her boyfriend, who had stayed with her after her injury, couldn't handle the publicity and broke up with her. She wouldn't be able to go to college like she had planned, even if she had to attend classes in her motorized wheelchair. Her parents were so overprotective of her, she couldn't go out with her old friends. They carried her everywhere, never allowing her to explore her new world.
One day, the phone rang. Her doctors had figured out what happened in the last procedure which had miniaturized her and had come up with a reversal to return her to normal size. Sadly, though, she would once again become a quadriplegic. She listened to the doctors as she sat on the control module of her motorized wheelchair, wondering what would be worse.......living as a tiny and healthy freak or normal sized but unable to use her legs and arms.....................
