When a cycling accident left Steven Dowd, 41, paralysed, he contemplated taking his own life. He and his wife Helen, 55, share their stories I was in bed when I received the news that my husband had been hospitalised.
Steven had left for work at 6am, on the new racing bike he’d bought to train for a charity event. I wear earplugs because he snores terribly, and woke at 8am to a screenful of missed calls.
I assumed it was a crisis at work – I was a youth worker for a local council – but there was a message from a woman I didn’t know: ‘Your husband has been involved in a serious accident.’ I tried to reach Steven’s colleague Dan, who he cycled in with.
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