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[Music] Casey Brady welcome to my podcast hello thank you hey thanks so much for coming
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here I really appreciate it um I just metet you outside and um I I give all the guests of the podcast the same
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instructions to come to the front of the apartment and I'm such an idot that's
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not something I even thought about but there's like eight or nine steps coming
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into the into the building um so we went up to the side gate and came in that way
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um you since you've been um in a whe chair you you must find this all the time things that you just didn't even
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think about in terms of accessibility I just s you were stitching me out um yes yeah but you just I don't know
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it's I think I expect it and I just know that's it is what it is yeah it must be
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incredibly frustrating though yes yeah yeah yep but now I'm like I don't care
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if I'm late I'm late or whatever because I'm like I try yeah so um tell us about
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uh Casey pre-accident by the way the accident we're talking about it was a Motocross accident in um 2017 June 2017
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tell us about Casey before then um so before then I studied to be a teacher I was working at a daycare at the time I
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think me and my husband or my partner at the time were just doing some spec houses and taking along with life like
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trying to achieve goals and make some money um I think at the time I was a little bit bored as well with like
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career-wise and what to do and then yeah I used to race Moss every weekend and then yeah I heard my accident yeah so
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you're you're one of four girls yes f girls yes and um all all Motocross
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Riders yes so um we went to we lived on in the on a farm um and I think yeah a few boys from our school did Motocross
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and they came and did like a little show day so we wanted dad to buy us motorbikes so we got rid of the horses
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and we all got into Motocross we raced yeah as like kids growing up every weekend kept us out of some
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trouble yeah so you just yeah cuz I scrolled um all the way back through your Instagram and it just paints a
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picture of just a very normal active young New Zealand female really like you're over in Paris with your friends
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at the L yeah um you're your Motocross it looks like most weekends yeah so yeah
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we did some traveling I think I've traveled like a massive chunk of Europe um lived in a
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van I think when I was 21 so me and my partner went over um brought a van and did like Europe England Scotland and all
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of that and then yeah we met friends over there my husband raced IB I like surf life saving so he
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did Ure rescue boat no what are they oh inflatable res inflatable rescue yeah yeah so we went and did some of that
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some of the like World Champs over there so like did like heaps of stuff I guess
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before my accident um which is like for me like amazing that I have done that but yeah so this is gting our husband so
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you guys have been together for a zillion years yeah I think we metet when we're oh we got together when we're 18
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so and I'm 31 now so wow sh it's a lot for you to both both go through oh yeah yeah it's a lot of a
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lot of adjustments in particular for you but also for him as well yeah like I don't know I guess you never like see
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the impact that it has on your family and like the ones closest to you you kind of like living this kind of in the
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moment and yeah impacts everyone so um take us back to June 25 2017 so I'm really by the way is is this
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is this hard to do or is it annoying have you just revisit visited it a million I it's still like traumatizing
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yeah is it like it's fine but yeah I don't know like I still am like so mad
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but it is mad at life mad met it met it yourself or the situation did you make a mistake um well
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I knew so I had the night before it was my husband's birthday and we're going to
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go to Orland I was like I'm not coming I'm not that girl like I'm up for a
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whatever I'll do anything kind of thing and we're going to go to and I was like
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I'm not hopping in the C of you I'm not coming and they're like stop being such
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a dick like I was like I'm not coming I've got a bad feel I think I cried I
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was like I'm not coming so then he didn't go to or he like fine we'll like
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race on Sunday and we got to Motocross on Sunday and I was like I'm not racing
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like I don't want to ride like I just had we years and now I'm like listen to
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your gut feeling um so like I was like I'm not riding not riding First St for
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practice crashed and I was like I knew it so yes so what what happened exactly is it is it on video by the way was
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anyone videoing the practice or never really asked probably not um so like it so T track I race there a million times
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before like same track pretty much um so they have like a sort Us section so it's
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just pretty much sort us and it's like whoops or like bumps um and before that
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it's like a double to double in so you guess you don't have to miss some of the
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track and I don't know what I did I just went yeah over the jump didn't obviously
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was going too slow didn't clear it and I just yeah went straight over the bars um
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as I landed on my head and then that's kind of I guess how yeah broke my back
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and you you're knocked out at that point are you unconscious or so I was definitely knocked out um cuz like when
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I came like around I like felt my stomach and then I that's when I instantly knew like it it's not good wow
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um I can't even explain the feeling like I just knew like I didn't move like you
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know you see on the movies like don't move don't move I knew like straight
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away um like yeah I touched my stomach or I must have went to get up or something and I just touched like my
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tummy and I was like okay something's wrong like and like the feeling now I'm
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still like paralyzed but I it's a different feeling um what do you mean I don't know I can't even explain it like
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just a tou of my skin or something and that's when I ins knew like I was like
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this is bad so is this when you're lying lying on the track yeah so at that point
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of I've had so many people in similar situations um um on on the podcast including SM had on a couple of times at
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that point are you um are you like freaking the [ __ ] out or are you just alarmingly calm or no I freaked the [ __ ]
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out I think yeah like I knew and then I think I was more scared like I didn't
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even think of like that I was so scared like I knew it was [ __ ] like I say it's
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not good but I was more scared for like Mitch to have to ring my mom and dad like it like I don't know I just could
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like feel the like pain of like knowing something bad had happened it was real weird
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it says a lot about you doesn't it and you're you're just an empathetic person
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no I'm not I'm like a toughing the [ __ ] up person but yeah I don't know like and
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then I think I knew like the guy that came up to me he had been like my whole life of motocross like he was the
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ambulance guy he was amazing I'd seen like so many crashes and he would just
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always be there and he said to me do you want to go to middlemore and I knew that
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he wasn't asking me like he was telling me and I was like yeah like um and and
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then I knew he just would have taken care I just felt safe like with him and then yeah I was flowing to Middle mow I
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don't really remember that's just all a whirlwind wow so you're um so the paramedics and the
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and the helicopter like what do they what do they say or what are they doing I don't know like I think I was pretty
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out with I guess they dragged me out straight away like I had hit my head I knew I had like something neck cuz my
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hands were weird um like tingly or what yeah so yeah just but I didn't know kind of at
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the time anything like even like I remember going into the M probably like when I woke up again and I remember
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holding this chick's hand and she gave me like so much comfort just like I think I didn't let go behind like don't
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let me go I'm poor girl but like was she like a nurse or must don't leave me um
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then yeah I don't really remember anything even like I was in hospital and I think like I look back at photos and I
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was like smiling in all my photos and like I don't know get me up but yeah I'm
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stuck in a neck brace like wasn't allowed to move but I think I didn't realize what I had done you know they'
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probably told me 10 times you've broken your back like every day they probably
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tell you that you're paralyzed this and that but I know I think it probably took
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me like a couple of months before I was like oh [ __ ] yes so so the first few conversations that you have with um the
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doctors or surgeons like what do they say how do they say it's looking what do
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they say the prognosis is do they say you it's unlikely you're ever going to
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walk again or so they're like the worst first like no car is just straight like
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this is supp I suppose they don't want to give anyone sort of false hope or no
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see I'm not like I get that but I'm all about like so I've got a complete spinal
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cord injury so they say so I've done T4 which is from like just under your boes
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and T6 I think so they did like a 8 hour surgery and put some rods in and some fake ver vertebres and then they told me
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like you'd never Bend game um and yeah you'd never walk game or gaining sensation and I feel like they told me
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that every day like like hey can I go do something now and then they retell me and I remember my sister at the time she
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was like why is she crying like she's already been told this but I how do how
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do they how do they say it like straight like no you have a complete spine aord entry you will not walk again like
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there's no evidence to show you walk again like you've completely damaged
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your span cord and they're just real blunt like no some of it well no sort of
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bedside Mana nah I guess they see a million people a day and yeah oh that's a lot to take in yeah but
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then um like following your your Instagram Journey from all the way back it seems like you were um um you're very
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defiant or relentlessly positive from day one yeah um and there's all these all these little winds along the way um
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like you there's your first outing outside of hospital um there's um learning to sit yeah uh 20 seconds on a
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tilt table and then 7 minutes on a standing frame then 30 minutes on a standing frame so felt like you were
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just um just had this Relentless dogged determination just to almost like flip the middle yeah the middle finger to the
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people that said no um that must have been a satisfying feeling in those early days making all these um like
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exponential sort of gam yeah I guess so now I'm oh that's so dumb like 20
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seconds but at the time you know that's a massive jump from like sitting up and
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for the doctor was like I know my physio hated me every day I'm like I want to
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move I want to do something like move my legs get me out of bed like and they'd
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be like no no this is how it works you know they have their like tick box um and then like standing I feel like they
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said to me so many times like I wouldn't eat like I was eating lollies and chocolate for like three months like in
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the spinal in the like Ward I was like I wonder I can't stand up I remember they
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told me I was allowed out and they're are you allowed out for a night like go
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practice you know go stay in a hotel and booked to your hotel I I want to go home
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I need meat I need like food so we drove back to taranger and I had like home kill proper food and then I think I came
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back on the Monday and I stood out that would in my like 30 seconds or whatever why why were you just eating lollies and
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chocolate just cuz the hospital food was so [ __ ] [ __ ] yeah and I don't know I
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like a good treat I must nothing like you but i' had tumor taken out a bunch
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of years ago and I ended up surviving on the muffin break stuff downstairs cu the
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food was awful it's horrible yeah Mitch loved it so he had to go to work he moved to Oakland and lived in the van
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outside the hospital um so he had come home and I couldn't make him F so here's
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my Hospital F yeah what are I'm I'm guessing you've had conversations over
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the years what are his sort of Recollections of that time yeah I don't know like I know he
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had a lot of anger like I think he smashed up our house a bit anger at I don't know probably just a
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situation like I know he's never been mad at me like he's M um like it's [ __ ]
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but he's real good like he doesn't let me like if I'm like got an excuse for
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something I'm not allowed like oh that's which is good because that keeps you
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know like you can just say no to things or whatever and become like stuck in your house or whatever but he's like no
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I'll lift you I'll do this you know and it's I guess that keeps yeah like the
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positive I'm getting a little bit emotional what a what what a cool guy it's a big test on the relationship oh
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yeah you know and when we were in the span award it was like what do they keep saying they keep like oh we need to do
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like sexual like Health oh not Sexual Health like talks and things like that and like how to like keep your partner
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and like your relationship going but then the chick said to me like 90% of the couples that break up they're
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already going to anyway um but just the tapping point B yeah and like I get that now you know some people
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you know they're not meant for each other or whatever but yeah he's been
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good yeah so what's the What's that the what's the sexual chat they have oh like
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no feeling and sensation um so they like how to like keep that like healthy in a
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relationship so I don't think I went to any like don't talk to me don't just rub
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everything um yeah je it's it's only 303 minutes of I I was maybe going to breach
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the stuff later on but since we're here we can get into it now as much or as
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little as you want so um you must have like um ayous signs or I have your neck or ears or I don't know see I feel like
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I still know yeah like no complaints I hope he's tell me so but yeah I definitely think I know like more
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now um and and fertility wise if you decide to have a family it's everything's the same you can um yeah so
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we're actually just we've got a baby on the way oh no way yes we just found out
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yesterday we're having a little girl so I'm not carrying the baby so we're going
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through surrogate here so so so who's who's the surrogate do you say or you
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don't say yeah she's like the most her name's Brook I met her on Facebook like
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the most amazing human I've ever met in my life so she's carrying our baby oh my
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God this is a bizarre tangent for the podcast so so you went through um uh fertility treatment and so that they
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harvest your eggs yeah so we made embryos um and then yeah went through S say so put the amazing because you you
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would be unable to carry so I can but it's really high risk and like I have like no bladder control no bowel control
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like spasms like all this dumb stuff so I think it would take my Independence away it's really dangerous it would
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probably take you like all of my like the control I do have away um I wouldn't
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be do my rehab and then I have like a random blood thing I think it might be from an accident like a I don't know
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it's from like a blood transfusion so I've got like weird blood that might not
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like give iron to the baby or something so it's not worth the risk well so what
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sort of um I I mean I went through a bunch of um rounds of IVF with um with my partner at
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the time uh JJ like we had like six rounds of IVF before seems like um the the uh the chat that we had with Dr
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Richard fiser the embryologist was probably like the chats that you've had with some of your doctors and the he was
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like listen you guys need to give it out it's not going to pretty much so yeah
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what sort of um discussions do you have with um the with the lady that's carrying the baby like or or counseling
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or whatever to make to make sure that she's okay with it yeah so we had to go
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through like all of that stuff and that has like a weird chromosone thing so then we had like another thing so we had
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to test all our embryos and like all of that drama but um so you do like the counseling side of things I think we did
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some single counseling to make sure I was okay with someone hold on my I don't
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get a [ __ ] I want a baby like just give me a baby so that was fine and then we
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did like couple counseling to make sure she has us gu going to give our baby like up and it was like okay for them
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and their family but it wasn't too hard out I think because she's her and her
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family are amazing and their normal like yeah which helps yeah it's funny that
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yeah um just towards the end of our fertility Journey we um got got a mate to be a sperm donor um so we had to have
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a couple of sessions of counseling and his wife had to do the same feels like it's easier to trick them that way and
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say the right things I'm like my sister wants to do my next one I'm like she wants to have
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another baby but I'm like sure we just book you and now get all our counseling
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done it doesn't they won't notice you're pregnant yeah we can tra oh that's
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really exciting congratulations thank you this is really cool um yeah I so you mentioned the bladder
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thing so so you got no no bladder control no so if I pee on your couch I'm real so well I did see an Instagram post
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um uh when was it um hang on on May 2019 you you peed on trainer's shoulder what I was going to ask about
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that how does that happen they still love it um so I I'm kind of good so I self
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catheterize um so even you when I first had my accent like that stuff I didn't
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like that would have been months later and I I'm like I must had like a cathet
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a bag I'm like why do I have that like I want to go to the toilet by myself and
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oh you're never going to like what do you think you've been doing this whole
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time like hey like I don't know your stone register I guess for like living in the kind of the moment um so yeah I
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self catheterized but I can get a shiver when I need to go toilet but then I never used to so that's like new thing
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so that's pretty cool like time it yeah so I'm like oh I'm shivering I'm like kicking everyone
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like you need a pee so yeah I'll just sometimes pee anytime anywhere so you you um you you just strike me as being
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um just so so positive and independent were you were you like this pre excident or do you think youve really of stepped
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up definitely like as much as like it's the shittest thing and I wouldn't wash
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it upon anyone but saying that like and I hate it and I want to walk but saying that I
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love like my life and like I guess where I've come you know like I I'm probably
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I'm a bit person from it oh yeah I think so I don't know I just think of things I
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think differently now and I see like a different side um yeah I don't know I'm
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just I guess happy with where I am at and Le would be the best but yeah yeah I I know that's the um the ultimate goal
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and um sh I mean the stuff that you share online is inspirational like it's just
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um I I'm you we talked before about the gains early on like the standing frame
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and stuff like that and I'm sure now there periods where there's weeks or
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months or even you know quarter of a year where it feels like you're even going backwards or there's no gains at
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all you must be like what the [ __ ] am I doing um and you probably get frustrated
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and down on yourself but [ __ ] you must be proud yeah I think I'm in that r at
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the moment um yeah I I did like a ligament on my ankle over Christmas I was probably drunk or
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something I don't even know how it happened because normally I know when I hurt myself um and that's like a long
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healing time and like I have never had like I'm lucky because I'm really
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unstable but I've never had any like setbacks and I feel like that just [ __ ] me up because like I had you know
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holidays and then now I went every time I go to stand on my foot or stand up I was spas and I couldn't do it and then I
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get like yeah I'm like feel like I'm stuck in like a funk and then I felt
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like everyone's giving up on me like not that they are and it's nothing to do
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with them anyway but I'm like I want someone to believe I guess as well as myself um but yeah I think I'm back
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now yeah because it must be must be hard day because you you do want to keep um you know keep your eye on the prize
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and um and keep progressing but then I suppose there's this part of you that
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also has to accept that this the is the life that potentially you've got now
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yeah see I'm still I have an accepted I don't think I ever will however I've
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like changed my focus like when I had my accident I was doing probably eight hours of rehab a day like I was anything
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everything I probably spend much probably hates me I spent all of our money on anything for my rehab like I'll try
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it um and then I remember some guy telling me he was in a whe to himself and he his goal wasn't to walk and he
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told me you need to find like your purpose kind of thing like maybe you should go back to work and stuff and I
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was like [ __ ] you like I was real mad at him for even saying that I'm like you
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don't get it like you don't want to walk so you don't get it um and then I think
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a few weeks later I had like this thing and I was like holy [ __ ] like I need a
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purpose like I need something for me I think we were doing some speak houses at the time but we had done it before I
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knew how to do it it wasn't enough um and that's when kind of like the gym
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came along because I was like desperate to like find something else um yeah yeah
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yeah and um oh just going back to after the accident so there was like a give a little page set up um which was massive
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there was like a 20,000 bucks from o over 150 people what other fundraisers were there I saw a photo of you on
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Instagram with a a giant ceremonial cheick yeah so the Motocross Community was amazing um and like random people
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like so lovely like families from school from primary school like donated me money like for my rehab um yeah we done
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like a couple of like fundraisers for Mo through the Motocross community so um training days and like those fast guys
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would always yeah like do like a training because everyone wanted them to teach them and then he' give me the
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money like yeah so it was amazing like hand yeah like amazing people just so generous to like give someone a hand
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yeah that's so cool what do what do you do with that money I'm guessing there's
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a lot of um cost involved like yeah I don't know like modifications to your house or anything or to the vehicle ACC
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so like super super lucky um and grateful for ACC for the fact of like my house like I just got my house done
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finish now or yeah just finished it um like my car they like obviously modified my car gave me money towards like a
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decent car um but my rehab because I've got a complete spinal cord injury is not
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covered um so they give you physio but physio for me like I think I fired my air
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physio she but why did you why did you bu your fizzy well I think she dumped me before I had
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a chance to dump her which I was so pissed off about why are you a nightmare client and
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that you're just so driven or yes just like we're going to learn transfers
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today I don't want to [ __ ] learn to transfer like or like transferring from
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here to my chair or here into the car like I'll figure that out myself I think
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at the spinal W they told me had to take my Cher P to get into the car and I like
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threw it across the ground like stop teaching me this like and now I'm at I probably should have listened cuz I got
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home and I was like okay I don't know how to do it but you work it out where
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where are you in the birth order I mentioned at the start you're 104 um so there's three of us like older ones so I
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was like middle and then I've got a sister that's 10 years younger are they
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all similar to you or are you yeah prob me you seem quite like stoppy and uh I don't don't know if stoppy is the word
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or just like yeah just this dog of determination which is inspirational by the way it's just a psycho yeah psycho
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yeah I didn't want to say psycho but years psycho energy yeah um so yeah now
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so I have to pay for like all the rehab I do wow the physio are like different yeah kind of rehab yeah but there's some
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um amazing footage footage of you online like walking with frames and stuff like
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that and you you know your legs are sort of shaking uncontrollably um but you're up and
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you're standing and you're moving forward what's that sort of stion like
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so like I'm real big on I need a lot of like weight or something like through my
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legs to like feel things um but yeah like as soon as I stand up and as soon as I like go to like flick and my [ __ ]
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kind of like way I can feel like it happening and like it changes like in my leg um so yeah I know like when it's d s
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cor yeah it's weird yeah yeah um so March 2019 you went back to the uh motocross track in too for the first
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time yes um do you still enjoy the sport you still enjoy no not really um Mitch kind of stopped because he raced as well
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and like my whole family kind of stopped um and he's just got back into I think I
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hate it because I don't want him to like I don't want people to hurt themselves
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like I know right right I'm like you know how bad it can be yeah and I think
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like when I had my accident as well I wasn't so scared as I'd been around
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Motocross for so long and everyone that had broken their back just walked again you know like it wasn't you're not
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paralyzed for you're just broken at the start and then you walk again so I didn't know that side of things um and
00:25:34
now I do so I'm like and I see like our germ I guess is like a massive eye opener for life um so yeah I don't like
00:25:42
seeing it yeah but yeah I have to be the supportive wife you know yeah um oh you
00:25:48
just he still ride oh he's just got back into um like in a Speedway track um flat
00:25:53
track it's called um yeah and then we came out to or like couple of weekends
00:25:57
ago first race like right in front of me he like falls off and the bikes all crash into him like right into his back
00:26:04
and I was like I can't deal and then the other friend we took crashed and I was
00:26:08
like watching that guy oh my God that poor guy and then I realized it was like our guy I was like oh I don't like this
00:26:15
one um what about your sisters like did they um since you're all rode after the
00:26:21
accident do they have like a I don't know like some sort of survivors guilt or anything like that you know where I
00:26:27
don't know no I don't think so like they're pretty amazing like and so good
00:26:32
of me like I think I find it the hardest being around my sisters because I compare um because they're like I guess
00:26:39
me but not me and they're like normal so I'm like I struggle but yeah that
00:26:44
amazing with me and I I don't know think they're just like ready to let it
00:26:50
go yeah well yeah I mean you when you see how bad it can be I suppose it would hard to keep going and and keep your
00:26:57
nerve yeah to do the things that you need to do I know Jesse's real so I actually live with one of my sisters at
00:27:03
the moment and she's real like scared of things and like with her little girl she
00:27:07
be careful be careful I'm like we need to like stop that and I know that's
00:27:10
because of me when she had her kids she's like I can't have an epidural because I don't want to like I couldn't
00:27:15
deal with like the family so you just went through pain because you're too scared to be like
00:27:20
me oh it's quite lovely though is it yeah things like that how does how does
00:27:25
that make you feel well I felt bad for is my life that [ __ ] that you don't even
00:27:30
want to practice it Okay there's um there's a saying that everyone uses that
00:27:35
every cloud has a silver lining um what is the um the Silver Lining and being unable to walk or have you not found it
00:27:42
yet no I haven't found it no yeah um work on it and who who is olle coffee uh so he's a guy I did neurop
00:27:52
physics with um so I did a lot with him when I first had my accident so it's
00:27:57
like a different kind of therapy I guess um I don't know how to explain it I've seen seen some articles
00:28:03
online where yeah you're just like pumping up his tires big time yeah has he been really good um yeah he
00:28:10
was amazing so I've kind of stopped that at the moment um I think lockdown was
00:28:15
really good for me because it made me kind of like figure out what I should what was working for me um so after
00:28:23
lockdown because I was doing so much and it cost you shitload of money um so I kind of simmered down and just was am
00:28:30
doing the stuff that I'm doing currently um cuz I didn't think I went backwards I
00:28:35
kind of just CL so I was like maybe I don't need to be doing that so much I don't yeah so I'm just kind of have been
00:28:41
playing with what to do yeah so so so what does like an average day look like these days so so you wake up in the
00:28:47
morning yeah so I open the gym so I normally go there first um no let's go let's go all the way back though like in
00:28:54
terms of like the admin of like getting out of Bard and okay I'm not your typical spinal cord injury like person I
00:29:02
get up I pretty much go to the gym of my andies yeah like I remember they telling
00:29:08
me like you have to like do this in the morning like bow routine and all this like [ __ ] that [ __ ] I'm I'm living life
00:29:14
like I'm not spending an hours doing that I get up go to the gym and then I do a lot of electrical stem for say any
00:29:21
any of that um so I do like eest bike um Brad does lot of it I think as well so I
00:29:26
do that in the mornings and you like sticker your like whole bum and everything up with like electrical pads
00:29:31
I do that for like 45 minutes um can you feel anything I can feel it just like pulsing yeah yeah so I know that it's on
00:29:40
um so I do that in the mornings and then like set up the gym and then I do kind of like training and stuff in the
00:29:48
mornings with like clients um and then I've been I do my rehab like every afternoon so I do a couple of hours
00:29:56
every afternoon um and then I had been when I'm training I have to go back at
00:30:01
night because you run out of daytime I have trying to run a business like you got to train like my reur and stuff so I
00:30:08
had been going back at night to the gym and training like your body because I guess like when you're doing your like
00:30:13
walking and stuff you're not keeping fot or it's just rehabs it's kind of like a
00:30:18
different exercise you know you just need to do something [ __ ] you're so inspirational do you um how do how do
00:30:25
you feel being called inspirational I know I don't think I'm that cool like there's people out there
00:30:30
are way better than me you said that I went back through our our DMS to cuz I approach you about coming on the podcast
00:30:36
and you like I don't know if I'm that cool um I happen to think you are I
00:30:40
think I think you're remarkable even even like just that little throwaway comment before where you said no [ __ ]
00:30:45
that I'm not doing that morning routine like just this um this sort of uh defiant attitude you've got and just
00:30:51
this determination and this Relentless positivity I think that is just the coolest thing
00:30:56
ever it's really cool you're um yeah yeah I mean your husband must be so proud your family must be so
00:31:03
proud and uh your your child on the way they're going to be very proud as well
00:31:07
it's it's it's it's it's bloody cool I it's neat you must you're just being
00:31:12
modest right oh I think it's well like I just cuz I'm in a wheare doesn't
00:31:18
I don't know you know like I'm still the same as you and anyone else like um but
00:31:23
some people have [ __ ] attitudes and I'm like that's dumb like that's not a cool
00:31:27
person to be like no matter what your situation is like you can either be miserable or it's not going to get you
00:31:33
anywhere and I think that's my thing like I could be sad and like I'm in so
00:31:36
much pain all the time but if I just sit at home and be grumpy or like show people that it doesn't get me anywhere
00:31:44
what sort of pain are you in it's like phantom pain or kind of so like the nerve pain um so it's getting worse the
00:31:52
more I Reon I get back so to me that's like a positive like give me more like if I'm going to get something out
00:32:00
of it um but yeah how is it like how was your mental health like sort of immediately afterwards or in the you the
00:32:07
weeks been amazing like yeah did you bounce back because in I mean it's hard
00:32:12
to get full gauge on someone from Instagram but it's like as I mentioned before it seemed like immediately after
00:32:18
the accident you were sort of in the mindset of okay what do I need to do next yeah and then you were learning to
00:32:23
sit by the way what is involved with learning to sit well I was like a yoa I think cuz I have no core so I'm paral
00:32:30
I'm here it's like everything and you don't think that you use like everything
00:32:34
to like sit out so just practice really like yeah I think they used to like hold
00:32:39
me and then they' slowly lower where my support would be um it's got to be the
00:32:43
weirdest sensation yeah so and then and then the um there was the tilt table thing we talked about and
00:32:50
some other thing what what why is that so hard I was fainting after like a matter of seconds
00:32:57
yeah and I reckon that's for because they had no food at me and the lady was
00:33:00
a dop she kept saying to me like oh we haven't had anyone do this in a long time and I'm like get out you're like
00:33:05
you work with people like this all the time but she used to make me feel like [ __ ] like it's just you like but U I got
00:33:13
rid of her to my God for so now I'm too scared to go back to the spinal W because I don't want to see her cuz I'm
00:33:20
like I'm going to walk and now I'm still not walking I'm like oh I don't want her
00:33:23
to like laugh at me like I'm still scared of physios because I think that they're laughing at me but or like they
00:33:28
think I'm wasting my time but I know that's so stupid as they'll get some
00:33:34
sort of sense of validation or satisfaction that they told you you you it wasn't going to happen and they were
00:33:39
right yes I I think you'd have to be a weird I know I twisted individual to think that I think it's commendable that
00:33:45
you're that you're trying and and that you're this determined yeah well I think
00:33:48
as well I put in so many hours like if I give up now what was the point yeah um how do you keep going with the rehab
00:33:56
when there are you periods with had any sort of progress or gains I think that and I don't want to live like this like
00:34:02
I [ __ ] hate being in my wheelchair like if I go anywhere I hide my wheelchair like I don't know and I hate
00:34:07
being unhelpful like it's so annoying what do you mean unhelpful well I do like everything that I can do but like
00:34:15
we live on a farm and it's like I just want to go like spray those away do I'm
00:34:20
not like I'm AIC farmer and like but just be helpful to me it's like all I do
00:34:24
is watch them and then I'll be like try to love something I can't do just let me
00:34:28
be helpful like this morning I went to the xville and I had all the stuff in my car and I had this big basket on me like
00:34:34
peeping over it and then I had like a TV and stuff and then this guy's oh can I
00:34:38
do it for you I'm okay yeah goad I'll play it sometimes but like it's just annoying
00:34:43
you know like you want to be a to do stuff yeah I suppose I'm curious about this because
00:34:50
um everyone I think at some point imagines what it would be like to lose your ability to walk and you're never
00:34:56
never sure thankfully um what you'd be like in that situation like whether you'd be a fighter or whether you'd be
00:35:03
you sad and depressed yeah I don't know he like um you'd have to find something like if I didn't have my go to
00:35:13
walk I think You' if I just accepted it I'd need like a purpose somewhere else
00:35:18
like you'd have to have something deep I think else I don't know how You' do it
00:35:24
like happily but it seems like your life um is as as pretty good as as is as in you're making the best of a a [ __ ]
00:35:32
situation yeah for sure like and I have it easy P to a lot of people like sometimes my hands still go paralyzed
00:35:38
like yesterday because I've I don't know what like there's something in my neck
00:35:41
that's weird and I know when I'm tired or I've been like doing stuff like bent
00:35:44
down my hands go paralyzed and it's like the scariest thing in the world I'm like
00:35:49
I don't think I'm always like to match this sounds really bad like I don't have
00:35:52
mental have issues but I'm like if that happens to me like push me off the bridge I don't know how people do it
00:35:56
like I think like I'm so grateful that I have like my hands and like my arms um I
00:36:03
think if I was in that situation I'd be totally different but because I have you
00:36:07
know I'm still able to do things makes it way easier and then I see people in
00:36:11
[ __ ] situation so I'm I need to like tough up like I'll have cry on the way
00:36:15
home every now and then oh really yeah yeah do you do you are you generally quite good at like um keeping that stuff
00:36:23
hidden from uh you know your husband your friends yeah yeah are you um sometimes my dad always Rings me like
00:36:30
he'll ring me on the way home how's your Walkers I'm like good and then I know
00:36:34
that he can like hear it in my voice I've got to go and I'm like I know you're just going to hang out because
00:36:38
you don't you'll cry L it makes him sad and then he'll my mom will ring me I'm
00:36:42
like Dad told you I was sad but like I'm pretty good like I think I cried to my um so Aaron he owns
00:36:49
the gym with me I think I cried to him the other day like in the middle of that room and I just blew up I hate this I
00:36:55
just want to walk like how help me like all he does is help me for the last seven years or i' be over me
00:37:02
but I'm good why um why do you try and hide it so much like it's perfectly
00:37:10
understandable I know I just because I upset other people like like my sister for if I like showed her anything
00:37:17
towards when upstair like break her heart and I'm oh I can't do that it's
00:37:21
funny this almost goes back to what you were saying before when you're lying on
00:37:24
the track and you're like oh I don't want my parents to wow but like seeing someone else in pain
00:37:30
is a lot harder than yourself being in pain I reckon yeah but these these people are here for you to lean on I
00:37:35
know and they are but I'm like I'm okay I just need to cry all the way home and then I'm like
00:37:41
good it's out oh my god um you're hilarious you're hilarious have you have you had any um
00:37:50
therapy or counseling about this I know you mentioned before you had the fertility counseling I remember I think
00:37:56
at the beginning they send me to a mindfulness lady and she was actually amazing she was like you didn't fire her
00:38:04
no I didn't fire her she was really nice actually no she like saw me for free one
00:38:09
day she was a positive positive pathway is what something her name was she loves
00:38:13
and pep Mo and she randomly messaged me and was like can I like see you I didn't
00:38:16
think she was a counselor or anything I was like yeah of course you can and then
00:38:20
I like went and talk to her but she was really about I think the purpose thing um so she was really helpful she wasn't
00:38:26
like a coun or anything but she was just like you need to like find you um so I think that
00:38:33
was good but yeah no I haven't really but I'm haven't needed to no no like
00:38:38
um last year I had a bit of a tough year one of my friends killed himself in at my house and I found him and um oh I
00:38:47
think I have so much anger like I could have helped you you know what I mean but
00:38:52
I was like I feel like he wouldn't have wanted to show me pain um and I was like
00:38:57
I hate this that people were like soft around me like tell me you know so that was probably like the hardest but sorry
00:39:05
yeah no that's right do you want some I've got some tissues over here should I
00:39:08
get some Tiss I'll get some tisses a cute but no other than that I think that what annoyed me the most is
00:39:19
because people think I'm hurting or you know so it's like they can't you know
00:39:24
the people I'm like the closest to like I was like as brother you know know um
00:39:28
her sister sorry so I'm like who was he just a really good friend yeah he pretty
00:39:32
much him he's her twin and him and his twin he's one of merch bre friends and
00:39:37
they've lived with us they go overseas and they've lived with us our whole life
00:39:41
pretty much like one of them or the other one like you know that's always been swapped um like I knew he wasn't
00:39:47
okay but I didn't know like the extent of like depression and stuff so now I do
00:39:53
um but yeah I think that was just a tough thing to like learn I don't know oh that's a heroing thing to go through
00:40:00
yeah um so yeah I guess that kind of annoys me because I knew like I was as closest person but he didn't tell me
00:40:07
because I think he wouldn't have wanted to yeah I've had um a couple of friends
00:40:13
that have gone out the same way and it sort of made one of them in particular I could see a lot of myself in him like
00:40:19
this guy was the life of the party um but and it only became evident after he um took his own life that he he had
00:40:26
bipolar but he didn't want to like tell anyone that he worked with because he of
00:40:29
the stigma yeah and he was scared it would cost him promotions and stuff because people would be like oh don't
00:40:33
give him a promotion he might freak out um and then that made me realize [ __ ] I
00:40:38
got to I got to start prioritizing my own mental health because I didn't want
00:40:41
to end up in the same position it was and I think for a lot of guys guys in particular um it's just easier to do
00:40:47
that than to like have the difficult conversations with people which is terrible why but yeah I think I'm so
00:40:53
like oblivious to all of that like I was um yeah so I guess like and I think as well
00:41:02
like I've been so strong like this whole time so I think for him like telling
00:41:05
someone like you know me he thinks I'm so strong or whatever like I won't
00:41:10
understand and I'm like I don't care you know everyone's different everyone like
00:41:13
takes things differently but yeah yeah I think that was probably like a tricky thing but yeah I've been fine but yeah
00:41:20
when was this uh last August right sept oh June July you've been for a lot haven't you
00:41:29
you know um you because you put a time stamp in things and uh you know the pandemic was a lot for a lot of people
00:41:35
you the lockdowns and um and the you the the spin-off effects from from all that
00:41:40
it's it's been uh detrimental for a lot of people's mental health and pre that
00:41:44
and then post that you've had all this other stuff going on as well look at you
00:41:48
you just smiled you through tougher yeah you reckon I think so I hope so um what
00:41:54
are some um new hobbies and interests that you've learned since the accident
00:41:58
have you picked up anything new not like Hobbies I feel like I've got no time and
00:42:02
I know people like that's an excuse but like I'm so busy like I think like we've
00:42:07
been renovating for like three years so every weekend we're like doing something
00:42:12
um renovating so your house is Casey friendly or yeah yeah but like subtle CU I don't like the
00:42:20
wheelchair God so you never walk in and think it's a we to accessible house but
00:42:25
it is what does that mean just not a steep ramp or oh so like my kitchen bench is
00:42:34
like pretty and like it's like my scaly so you wouldn't like know and like
00:42:41
yeah I like to look normal um but no not really I think like the gym is like my passion like my baby um yeah was it like
00:42:50
that beforehand no so I had like I just trained like before my accident I just did like Gym classes I hated the gym um
00:42:57
and then when I started training like my rehab stuff I was very annoying to my trainer and that's when we like made the
00:43:04
gym um to help I guess people because there was nowhere for me to go um to do like any of the stuff I wanted like
00:43:12
proper rehab so yeah now I just I don't know I guess you want to help as many people as
00:43:17
you can to like even get them out of their house to I don't know for like their mental
00:43:23
health like it's got to help you to like feel safe and yeah yeah it's cool I love
00:43:27
it yeah and like people do amazing things yeah absolutely and oh there was a photo on Instagram of you at the top
00:43:34
of Mount [ __ ] with a bunch of friends um how did that happen to they they will
00:43:38
you up to a certain point or they piggy me piggy backed me the whole way the whole way oh that seems excessive even
00:43:46
La that was so good so um yeah it was like a group guys I went to um it was like a course kind of for like
00:43:55
it was like a random course was put on and I guess it was for like like positive thinking and stuff like that
00:44:02
was like a whole lot of random people and it was like them that took me out the mount so like I had met them and
00:44:07
they're like oh do you want to go out the mount one day and I was like yeah of
00:44:09
course I do and then they piggybacked me the whole way out so they just like tag
00:44:12
teamed up to the top it was amazing like random people just like out there to help yeah now the um I mean we only met
00:44:20
like 45 minutes ago but the um the the impression I'm getting from you is that
00:44:24
you're someone that's um you fiercely independent with this dog determination
00:44:29
so I'm I'm guessing part of you didn't like being piggybacked up the mount but
00:44:33
on the flip side of that like it's the nicest thing you could do for another
00:44:36
person oh it was so cool um yeah it was awesome I don't mind it see I'll play it
00:44:41
when I need to I'll play so sometimes I'm like okay we need to get this like if I'm with a boy or
00:44:49
someone that doesn't understand I'll go by myself cuz someone will help me you
00:44:53
just went in the car yeah well when when um I met you just outside like prior to
00:44:58
doing this like you it was it was raining you're in your chair um bare feet um and you just like wheeled down
00:45:04
the hill Andross the road at the traffic lights and then started Wheeling back up
00:45:08
again you're you're you're fiercely independent like yeah but it feels like there's
00:45:14
nothing I mean apart from OB the you the obvious there's nothing that you can't
00:45:18
do like you're just getting on with things yeah yeah yeah I have to and I think that's what brings like a lot of
00:45:24
positivity because I can like live a normal life as such um yeah so if it never got any better than this it's
00:45:32
still not bad it's still not bad like I definitely want more um and I think as
00:45:36
well like I have always wanted to be a mom that played with the kid you know and played soccer or you know just done
00:45:43
like the fun things and I think there's a thing I'm like I need to like I know
00:45:47
they'll love me just as much but yeah have you looked at doing any sports or I
00:45:53
think it's time and I hate being in my chair so it makes me feel [ __ ] and I
00:45:56
sounds really probably like Savage on people in wheelchairs but I'm like I don't like to
00:46:01
like associate I don't know like there's nothing like everyone was same as you
00:46:05
and same as anyone but I just it's like an eye opener like this is what you are
00:46:11
um even though there's nothing wrong but I just don't like being in my chair like
00:46:14
I I don't know I think that's an acceptance thing yeah that sounds terrible no well I mean
00:46:24
I mean yeah no one else can say if it's terrible or not it's just yeah it's an
00:46:29
interesting mindset when when you dream do you dream that you're able-bodied or
00:46:33
100% I had the same dream like if I dream I dream this dream that I can I've been I know that I'm like
00:46:40
paralyzed or something but I dream that I walk and when I because I'm a real
00:46:44
fast Walker and I think I was before my accident I'm always in a rush um I have
00:46:49
the stream and I sat like running and when I stop because I used to love running so when I stop running I can't
00:46:55
walk anymore so I'm like I can't stop like I just have to keep running like so
00:46:59
I'm like obviously this something and sometimes I like go to like get up or get out of the car and I'm like oh yeah
00:47:05
that's right when you have these dreams like are you bummed out when you wake up or
00:47:10
yeah damn it but like I still like my life yeah yeah it's funny CU I read somewhere or I heard somewhere that um
00:47:19
when when you start dreaming as you are that's when you've accepted it so for
00:47:24
people that lose that um there's been couple of yeah I've had a couple of like
00:47:28
double UTS on the show and mailer and now you and it's um yeah when when you
00:47:33
start to dream as you are I believe that yeah but yeah and like my dreams are weird so it's like I'm never like stuck
00:47:41
in my whech my dreams it's like but I just have to keep going yeah um have you
00:47:46
encountered any stigma or misconceptions around disabilities what's been any sort
00:47:50
of I openening thing there um before my accident I thought he in a wheelchair was like something wrong you
00:47:59
know like didn't ever think like it could happen to the standard person walking down the road like now I like
00:48:06
see R what happened to you like was that the first thing you ask why are you I don't know I like to know people's
00:48:13
stories because like it can happen to anyone um but yeah I guess like every I don't know and what are some of those
00:48:22
stories from People You Meet swimming and diving into pools like really don't
00:48:27
ever dive into a pool yeah like hats are random like and sports um I've got a few like cool
00:48:34
people that are like they have broken their backs and stuff from Motocross that are paralyzed and they're like
00:48:39
doing mean so I like kind of talk to those people yeah and um any sort of like Role Models or sources of
00:48:47
inspiration I know I know there there's um one Instagram post where you meet
00:48:50
Sophie Pasco yeah Dame Sophie um yeah any role models or I don't know someone
00:48:56
asked me this the other day and like I don't know like obviously there's like
00:49:00
so many amazing people out there like blow my mind with like just their drive and like
00:49:07
determination but I don't know no one right now that like sticks out to me I
00:49:11
guess you just do you yeah yeah well I mean you're going to be a role model to
00:49:16
a lot of other people you got such a good attitude what what are you doing in Oakland today you mentioned something
00:49:21
about an expo uh we're doing like a disability Expo so I have a little stand
00:49:25
um so h OTS and physios and stuff come through and it's just yeah show your ability is what it's called so you just
00:49:32
kind of so just giv out fers and got like a little TV with like slideshows of what we do at the gym just to oh that's
00:49:39
cool so then people I guess the more word is out there hopefully people will like find you and find the help that
00:49:44
they need right are you you trying to recruit another physio no no you probably need some up your sleeve it
00:49:51
seems like you're been no my team is good um how has uh oh what message would
00:49:59
you like to share with others about the importance of resilience I feel like resilience maybe
00:50:08
I could be completely wrong here but I feel like it's something that you've
00:50:10
maybe just haven't sort of thought about it's just sort of in your DNA yeah I
00:50:15
feel like you either have it or you don't I guess you can get it but I don't
00:50:19
know like why start saying that you don't finish you know like um I don't know
00:50:27
yeah just just keep going like there's always something worse out there yeah
00:50:32
that's so true that's so like any situation there is that saying that um
00:50:36
you know comparison is the theft of Joy um but if you compare down you don't
00:50:39
actually have to look too far to see someone that's you know got a lot worse
00:50:44
um how has your perspective on life and what's important changed since the accident see it's weird like I still
00:50:50
live the standard life like I still think like I found out we're having a girl and I was like oh I'm going
00:50:56
shopping like I want to buy all these cute things and I'm like why do I even
00:51:01
care like you know like everyone is this I don't know I think like obviously I
00:51:07
you take your heal for granted and you don't care about it until something goes
00:51:11
wrong but yeah I don't know I think I'm probably still the same I just hope that
00:51:16
I care about other people more oh you definitely do like it's come up a couple of times in this chat hasn't
00:51:22
it yeah like you know you've been concerned about your parents and how they'd react when they found out about
00:51:26
the accident yeah oh what about your wedding so the um when did you get married oh I can't
00:51:36
remember 24th of March what year was it 2019 2019 so was the date already in place like no so we were
00:51:44
like poor Mitch he was um he had asked my dad if he could propose to me like before my accident and then I had my he
00:51:52
hadn't done it and then I had my accident so he proposed to me in the hospital and then he was like like
00:51:56
always say something I don't even remember I'm like you're lucky I said
00:52:00
yes but so then and then I didn't want to get married until I could walk and
00:52:04
I'm like I'm not marrying you until I can walk I want to walk down the aisle
00:52:07
um and then he started getting mad at me so well okay we'll get him married so I got told but I still walked
00:52:15
down the aisle um so that was cool did you yeah how how did that look the ceremony in the day so did did were you
00:52:21
um like held up by friends or did you have frame or so I um this guy so I now have these like splint what are they
00:52:29
called like kfo like leg braces pretty much and this guy in the hospital so he was like the most amazing guy he's
00:52:37
builds them and um he yeah made me these braces and the night before my wedding so my ones from they were coming from
00:52:43
Australia and they had in a Riven and he was for the Friday night before my wedding and he's like just come to the
00:52:49
hospital and I'll sort you out like I'm not leaving it was like 9:00 at night
00:52:53
and he's still like we're at the hospital and he's like making these
00:52:56
braak for my leg so I could walk down the aisle it's like the sweet like he gave up his his night and his like
00:53:02
family to like help me and it was yeah so we on the night before we're practicing like how to walk obviously
00:53:07
I've been doing it for reir but I wasn't very good um so I had yeah a walking
00:53:11
frame and I got married at home so we um my mom and dad were on either side of me
00:53:16
like holding the frame I think and then I was waddling waddled my way down and then I put them on like for the first
00:53:22
dance as well so I stood up yeah how do you how do you feel when you watch the video back of that I didn't video it it
00:53:28
was too cheap what someone must have filmed it on their phone I someone I've got photos
00:53:35
I'm like oh what a budget but I like see I'm stoked I did it like that was my thing I don't want
00:53:43
to get married until I walk so I was Stu why why was that such a big thing for you I think because I don't probably
00:53:51
didn't know like I don't know I didn't want to be in my word I hat to be in my
00:53:54
w it was like embarrassing everyone looks beautiful and stands up and I'm like dumb and a worsh so like yeah I had
00:54:02
to who what do um obviously Mitch is um super supportive and it seems like he loves you
00:54:10
unconditionally so if you if you decided to he some days yeah um what does he feel about your dogged determination and
00:54:18
your reluctance to accept that that this could be as good as it gets he's good
00:54:23
like he's always like keep pushing so right now with just looking into I want
00:54:27
to get stem sales um so it's like 40 grand um and I have to go to America to
00:54:32
get it and I was I got no money so or like we got no money so I need to get your hard jump out from your what what
00:54:39
us down he you know there's no like No Limit there's no like what to give it's
00:54:44
like sweet like oh cool I get to come to America what did he say do I get to come
00:54:47
with you or he taking someone outse like he's like he'll support me 100% with
00:54:52
whatever like yeah have you done some travel since the accident where you where have you been have you been on a
00:54:58
honeymoon or anything no we went to um Queenstown yeah and did like some SK but I think that would P him off like if I
00:55:05
wasn't like up for stuff that was when he'd get mad at me so I did like the ski
00:55:10
down there like the sit ski down there oh what's that so you like sit down on
00:55:15
one of those like it's very weird it's like like a toboggan no no it's like on
00:55:20
skis and it's like got a seat on it and you like St down the mountain can anyone
00:55:24
get one of those I don't know I pretended so you had to like do like a um course you how to do it at the
00:55:31
mountain and get like instructor to help you and I was like oh so I was like we'll just pretend that I've done it
00:55:35
before because I wanted to like do it I I'm sure it'll be fine so we might
00:55:40
pretended to the guy there so because I won't hire it to you like unless you
00:55:43
like properly go to the snow or whatever like no no do it all the time like we just live in the mount so we do it at
00:55:49
repo and then the guy like gave it to me and then I like keep he's like I'll just
00:55:54
come with you for your first run I was like okay I don't know how to [ __ ] to
00:55:56
do it and then he like stayed with me then he ended up staying with me all day he
00:56:01
was like I'll just hang out with you I think he knew I like sweet my God I think yeah out anything
00:56:10
you're a liability oh this is amazing God your family must be so proud no pretty good
00:56:18
yeah do they do they say that or you're not one of those families that sort of
00:56:21
tell each other my mom and dad do like my mom always writes me the cutest birthday cards and she always WR
00:56:27
the sweetest little message but yeah they do no I mean it's seriously inspirational like the determination I
00:56:32
know yeah I've said it over and over again but it is that's really inspiring
00:56:37
um yeah so what next when are you hop to do the steam cells as soon as I get my Ki saer
00:56:45
out so what's involved with that and what's it likely to do um so they pretty much like ivu so
00:56:53
they use umbilical cord oh sorry yeah umbilical stem cells um so from someone else and then they like insert you so
00:57:01
they do through like an IV and then they do some into your spinal cord so you want it to go around like the lesion um
00:57:08
and they just kind of pump it through so it's hopefully I don't know how to
00:57:12
explain it it kind of like just helps with like regeneration around like the cells so um yeah like the lady was
00:57:19
pretty good like she was straight it's like it's helps some people it doesn't
00:57:22
to some people we can't tell you um but I need to do something more like I need
00:57:27
to add something like to what I'm doing yeah just to try but then if you do that
00:57:33
and it there's no impact or whatever you know are you are you depressed after
00:57:37
that are you sad no like I I'm kind of like the um PBO effect I think so I believe
00:57:46
enough I'm like okay it's doing something um no I've got to try it I
00:57:51
know that it is maybe going to help or it might not help I know it's not going
00:57:55
to make me walk like I'm not stupid um but I've got to try it it's like the
00:58:00
next thing and then I know technolog is changing and that's why I think as well
00:58:04
I'm so like hard out into my rehab because if I did let my body like lose my muscle tone lose my bone density and
00:58:12
all of that like it's not going to help me in life and when like something does
00:58:16
come up I won't be like a good candidate because of Fu you know yeah so you're in
00:58:22
the best possible shape you can be yeah so yeah yeah you're um yeah how's your
00:58:27
upper body strength changed like what's what have you noticed in your upper body
00:58:30
I noticed in your your chair you are flying along uphill outside the apartment um I think well I didn't
00:58:37
Motocross before so I was already like I I want skinny arms I don't think I'm going to get
00:58:42
skinny arms in a wheelchair but no I'm pretty like strong I can do everything
00:58:48
yeah and and you're and your car so you just drive yourself up from um pep MAA
00:58:52
yeah so it's all hand controlled yeah and then I just take my cheer apart and
00:58:56
put it like beside me I hide it see it's again I hide it in the back seat but
00:59:01
driving makes you feel so like free so I like like a good drive um yeah I can S I
00:59:06
can still relate to what you're saying so I feel like if if I was in your position I'd be exactly the same like
00:59:11
I'm fiercely independent I hate relying on anyone else for anything at all um
00:59:16
and I'd find that immensely frustrating yeah um and yeah it's like driving like take my chair apart and I
00:59:23
can do whatever I can get out where you know it's just easy yeah your cheers
00:59:28
just outside the podcast room here um the the passageway was too narrow to get you in so I carried you in here you're
00:59:34
very light by the way you're very easy to carry um but how was that you you were okay with being carried that's not
00:59:40
embarrassing or see I'm not weirdo like I and this what annoys me like some people in wheelchairs like I don't know
00:59:47
if different situations and they had different experiences I'm like go hard do whatever you need to like picky B me
00:59:53
out those stairs or whatever it like I'm not going to miss that out kind of thing
00:59:56
um and I understand like accessibility is such like a big thing but I'm like
01:00:01
there's no way you can make like everything accessible it's life like um
01:00:06
so I don't really care like as long as I can be part of it it's all kind of that
01:00:11
matters um and people are so nice like they're always willing to make things
01:00:15
work so I've never had like bad experiences have you got a Mobility um pass in you can yeah yeah oh so you are
01:00:24
accepting some of the oh they would have come in hand at the mall at Christmas time yes my work I was
01:00:31
like Miller like probably like the 23rd of December he runs at work in the roads
01:00:36
of BU house I'm just going to go to Bay here like who the [ __ ] goes to Bay here
01:00:39
on these days and they're like oh sorry the privilege white girl that Parks right outside I'm like yep get their
01:00:44
park like first Park typal see a little photo yeah Welly I um can't thank you
01:00:52
enough for coming over today um I'm so excited that you shared the news about
01:00:56
um starting a family as well and um I'm so excited to see what the what the future brings um you're just such a ray
01:01:03
of sunshine you're so positive you're ins have we said you're inspiring um I think you're very
01:01:10
inspiring and um anyone that's in your life your husband your family and your
01:01:14
friends they're they bloody likeing to heav you I don't know if that say the same
01:01:19
was oh yeah I'm sure some days they wen't I'm sure some days you're an
01:01:23
absolute Nightmare and there's probably like about 30 physios that you're fired
01:01:26
that would agree um but yeah Casey Casey Brady formerly waterhous um thank you so
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much for coming over today and sharing your experiences and your time and um good luck for the future whatever it
01:01:38
brings thank you so much thanks for having me it's finally nice to meet you I've listened to you my whole life he
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runs oh there is her I like yeah that I give you a little Fame I'll take it I'll take it no thank
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