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“I love my life and I’m so grateful to my family for fighting for it. I’m grateful to all those clinicians who helped to keep me alive after my injury, believing in the value of my life, especially in those early days when I doubted it myself. I’m grateful to have a health system that supports and cares for disabled people, supports that enable me to live a full, happy, useful life as a wife, mother, teacher and mentor, in my family and in the wider community. Even though I don’t know how my health will look in the future, what I have learned over the past 2 decades of living with a spinal injury, is that, in the midst of the challenges, there are far more surprising gifts than I could ever have imagined”.