‘Good things can come from bad things’: The inspirational fitness guru who was told she would never walk again after a horrific skydiving accident
- Emma Carey, 23, became a paraplegic after skydiving accident in 2013
- She broke her spine and doctors said she would never walk again
- During her recovery she turned to Instagram for health inspiration
- After less than a year Ms Carey slowly started to walk again
- Documenting her recovery she quickly became an inspiration herself
- The 23-year-old Queenslander now has over 50,00 Instagram followers
Now an
inspirational fitness guru with more than 50,000 on Instagram, Emma
Carey amazed doctors when she started walking less than a year after a
horrific skydiving accident left her a paraplegic.
The
23-year-old Queenslander’s life changed on June 9 2013, when she jumped
out of a plane in Switzerland during a European holiday with her best
friend.
The date is so important to Ms Carey that she had it tattooed on her arm as a permanent reminder of what she has achieved.
Now an inspirational fitness guru with more than 50,000 on Instagram,
Emma Carey (pictured) amazed doctors when she started walking just one
year after a horrific skydiving accident left her a paraplegic
As Ms Carey fell that day, her parachute and emergency chute became tangled and choked her instructor, who became unconscious.
The subsequent free fall saw her land on her stomach with her instructor on top of her.
Her spine was broken in two places, her pelvis was shattered and spinal cord crushed.
Recounting
the event on YouTube, Emma said that it wasn't until she saw the ground
coming closer very quickly that she thought something was wrong.
‘It
took me a little bit to realise something was going wrong. We were
going straight down really fast...I thought for sure a hundred per cent I
was about to die. I don’t know how else to explain it, it was horrible,
horrible, horrible,’ she said.
Emma
struggled while attempting to describe her fear, likening it to an
emotion one might feel when sitting an exam or breaking up with their
boyfriend but 'times a trillion'.
As Ms Carey (pictured) fell her parachute and emergency chute became tangled and choked her instructor, who became unconscious
Her spine was broken in two places, her pelvis was shattered and spinal cord crushed
She then received the diagnosis that
she was now a paraplegic from her doctors, who said that it was very
likely she would never walk again and would be in wheelchair how for the
rest of her life
She
then received the diagnosis that she was now a paraplegic from her
doctors, who said that it was very likely she would never walk again and
would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
After the accident Ms Carey spent three weeks in a Swiss hospital before flying back to Australia.
Over the next three months she began her physical therapy at a Sydney hospital.
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