Camp YesICan is a week long camp for amputee children put on by Wright & Filipis at Bay Cliff Health Camp in Big Bay, Michigan. It has been a favorite part of my summer routine for the past eight years. I go back as a counselor now because well, if you had this much fun you would too!
The kids that attend this camp are some of the most outgoing, creative, upbeat kids you may ever meet. Most of them I have known for the past seven years. I have watched me grow with their disabilities and become amazing people. They inspire me. Growing up I didn't really have the ability to get together with many other disabled kids. But when this camp started, that all changed. I now had the power to talk to other kids who would be going through life experiences like me. The bonds that are made in this one week are ones that can never be broken.
Well of course there is physical therapy, this is amp camp! Basically the only thing that makes this camp different from any other summer camp is that there is daily physical therapy. Wright & Filippis (which just happens to be where I get all my legs) has decided that during this week of fun, they would provide the best physical therapist and prosthetists to help make our prosthetics the best they can be.
