From ziplining in Bali, to beach-bathing in Spain, Rou Mofty loves to live life out loud.<\/p>\n
“Enjoying San Diego and traveling, that was kind of my life,” said Mofty.<\/p>\n
Life dramatically changed for the San Diego woman in April 2023.<\/p>\n
She says when she started having a bit of tightness on her chest, doctors diagnosed her with acute myeloid leukemia or AML.<\/p>\n
Rou says she\u00a0was given a\u00a033% chance of surviving the fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.<\/p>\n
“It was wild. It was kind of, just turned my life upside down, and overnight,” said Mofty.<\/p>\n
After 37-days of intense treatment at the hospital,\u00a0Mofty was released, only to go into septic shock and a nine-day coma.<\/p>\n
“They told my dad after day five, she’s probably not going to make it,\u201d Mofty said.<\/p>\n
But Rou, as her family says, is pure resilience.<\/p>\n
Her brain functions returned, but use of part of her limbs did not, forcing doctors to amputate both her hands and part of her legs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never realized how much determination I had until that moment. I was just like, okay, I got to get up and go. Like, I have to get back at it,” Mofty said.<\/p>\n
Two years later, the 43-year-old, who used to work in commercial real estate, is now turning her loss into inspiration. She’s showing the world through social media how she’s still living her best life, and working with the nonprofit, “So Everybody Can Move.”<\/p>\n
They’ve already changed legislation in 12 states, so that insurance will cover prostheses or orthoses made for physical activity. Costs for those can run up to roughly $50,000.<\/p>\n
Without legislation pushing insurance coverage, Mofty worries some amputees, especially kids, won’t enjoy a sense of normalcy.<\/p>\n
“Kids are obviously growing so much quicker and they’re not allowed to get out there and run with their friends. They’re not allowed to get out there and go in the ocean,” Mofty said.<\/p>\n
While fighting for others, Mofty is facing another battle. She needs a second bone marrow transplant to hopefully rid her body of cancer for good.<\/p>\n
She’s also hopeful that California will one day enact legislation so she can get a second pair of athletic, prosthetic legs, and return to her places of peace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to be able to get back in the ocean. That’s kind of my therapy,\u201d said Rou. \u201cRunning through Balboa Park. I’d love to get some of the blades and be able to get back. That’s another form of therapy for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From ziplining in Bali, to beach-bathing in Spain, Rou Mofty loves to live life out loud. “Enjoying San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":468478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,210,3971,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-468477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-wellness","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115773509704432410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}