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By Jonathan Goetz
December 12, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Isaac Paul Whiting (January 27, 1981 - December 8, 2024), a San Carlos resident, died Sunday, from oxygen related issues following chronic asthma complications after contracting COVID in 2020.
Whiting grew up in East County. He started High School in Clairemont as a middle schooler and graduated from Helix High School in East County. He later attended Cuyamaca College and Grossmont College, but was unable to attend for most of the past year.
Confined to a wheelchair due to spina bifida, he began wheelchair dancing in his mid-twenties.
“If you feel like you don’t belong in this world, you do. You matter,” he said in a video interview on how wheelchair dancing positively influenced his life. Whiting was interviewed by several news organizations locally, including the San Diego Union-Tribune and CBS 8 news.
He eventually danced with singer Jason Mraz in the Wheelchair Dancers Organization(WDO), in one of Whiting’s final days outside the house after oxygen deprivation related to COVID and a prolonged fight with an insurance company on portable oxygen that left him largely confined since early this year.
He attended church religiously in San Carlos and El Cajon.
His favorite color was green and he enjoyed books and concerts such as Weird Al ad well as camping in Seattle near his father.
He is survived by his parents, sister and a grandmother.
His family isorganizing a celebration of life on January 27, which would have been Isaac Whiting's 44th birthday. Details to follow.
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