I RW I N
S C H I M M EL
The
Comeback Kid by KARA LARSON
There’s a common thread amongst the outpouring of support for Irwin Schimmel these past few months. In the close-knit Arabian horse community, when one of our own takes it on the chin, we have a way of uniting in the wake and realigning our collective perspective. It’s been a challenging time for Irwin, but through hundreds of Facebook comments, letters, texts, and phone calls, he has felt the community of the Arabian horse envelop him. These outside voices and their words now serve as a chronicle of Irwin’s resiliency, his fighting spirit, and his new identity as the ‘comeback kid’. Because just after the 2017 U.S. Nationals, Irwin was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and then developed an offshoot disorder called Chronic Inflammatory
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