Lise made modifications to her activities to continue living life to the fullest.
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I just need to live my life. Then you learn how to work with your limitations. Like I didn’t give up my traveling. I just made sure that I traveled that there was an elevator there or that our room was on the ground floor. I made sure I always had a backpack full of protein bars that didn’t have a lot of salt in them so that I didn’t get hungry during the day and have to eat crappy fast food. So you learn your limitations. And I was so upset about having to give up hiking. And so what I ended up taking up was kayaking.
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