SOUTH BENDÂ â Anna Norquist launches from her wheelchair, her new prosthetic legs quivering with each step down a straight line through her parentsâ kitchen.
It is practice lap No. 1, exactly two years since the day that an ambulance rushed the gymnast to Indianapolis with a rare, nearly fatal â and still mysterious â case of toxic shock syndrome.
Lap No. 2. The singer Charlie Wilson, whom she fondly calls âUncle Charlie,â comes on the smart speaker. He's the same R&B artist whose concert sheâd gone to in Chicago just before she fell ill with the bacterial infection that triggered toxic shock, requiring medical procedures that took all her limbs.