Sacha Dekker: ‘Resilience comes out in little things. In moments when we choose to go on’
On August 24th, 2017, to the day exactly two years after a surgery that rendered me paralysed down my left side – and that had one of my medical team hand me a list of nursing homes with the words, “You’ll still have some quality of life there” – I walked on the Great Wall of China.
It was the goal I set, the moment I was told it was considered a “medical improbability” I’d ever walk, work or live independently again.
Achieving that goal was huge, and once I had access to social media again, I posted it on every single platform imaginable.
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