Inspiring Mhairi Anderson, 26, suffered a broken back and had to have her leg rebuilt with 27 screws.
A brave fitness fanatic has revealed how she taken her first steps after fearing she would never walk again following a devastating fall.
But after gruelling physio and painstaking recovery Mhairi has taken her first steps to start walking again and has even been able to start jogging.Three years ago, Mhairi Anderson tragically fell 60ft from a window with her life hanging by a thread. The once sporty and fitness fanatic was rushed straight to hospital and had toundergo a nine-hour long surgery.
After spending hours on end trying to get her right leg to show any sign of movement, she eventually started to see some signs of improvement. Still determined and desperate to walk again, she began a transition from parallel bars to a walking frame and then finally crutches. She said: “I sustained a spinal injury and broke my left tibia and fibula as well as damaging my ankle so bad the surgeon couldn’t make out which bones went where. I lost all feeling and movement on my right leg and had my left leg rebuilt with 27 screws in it after another surgery.
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