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News

Swimmer forced to Channel his energy into a new route

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

By Nick Tarver

AN AMERICAN who raised thousands of pounds to help buy a toddler a new set of
legs had to find a way round the bad weather in his bid to swim the English
Channel.

Student Kyle Taylor, 24, from California, has so far raised
more than £5,000 for three-year-old Harvey Parry, from Edmonton.

At 15
months old, Harvey, from Northern Avenue, contracted meningitis, which resulted
in him having both his legs and three and a half fingers on his right hand
amputated.

His parents, Carol and Jonathan, were forced to raise money
to buy state-of-the art prothestic limbs from America after all those offered by
the NHS proved too painful to use.

Kyle, who is studying at the London
School of Economics on a Rotary Club scholarship, first heard about Harvey’s
plight when
meeting members from the Edmonton club and he decided to help by
swimming the Channel.

However, despite his dreams being thwarted due to
high winds, he did complete a 25-mile marathon across Dover harbour, where he
had trained for his epic swim.
“As many Channel swim regulars have said,
this whole experience can be life-changing, and it has been for me as well,” he
said. “I’ve learned so much about myself and about my motivations. Somewhere
along the way it stopped being about getting to France for me and started being
about sharing this journey with everyone in my life, beating the cold water and
doing all I could to help Harvey run.

“I’m on cloud nine at the moment
and totally satisfied with how it went, and that’s all I wanted – to beat my
fears and help Harvey. I hope I did that, and inspired a few folks along the
way.”

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