canal path.Doctors told her she had severed her spinal cord and would never walk again.Yet she said: “I feel like a better person as I appreciate the little things more now.”Emily was walking home after a night with friends when a 17-year-old – who cannot be named – began acting “irrationally”.
She said: “He was being really aggressive towards me.”Suddenly he scooped her up and threw her over the side of the bridge.Emily added: “I remember the moment he threw me, then landing and hearing a massive ‘crack’.
I couldn’t feel anything, I knew it wasn’t good.“I woke up in hospital and doctors told me: ‘You’ll never walk again’.”Paralysed from the chest down, she spent more than five months in hospital.
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