Just never give up

‘You have three torn ligaments, broken your tibia and the knee joint is fractured in three places. Basically you’re never going to walk again without pain so forget about sport’. They said something like that. You’re probably thinking what did she do? Was the then 17 year old in a car accident? Funnily enough a teacher at school asked me that. No, nope it was far more mundane than that but it really isn’t important.

I don’t really like to talk about ruining everything in my knee because it’s boring. And I only remember the most horrible things that happened like the morning two days after the operation I had a fever of 42 degrees and was hallucinating. Later that day I remember when they stuck a needle into my knee from the outer side and I could feel the blood being pulled from underneath the patella.

It was just a freak accident that happened and days afterwards I couldn’t believe it. Almost a year has passed since everything in my knee broke and I have achieved a lot in this short amount of time.

I finished VCE (with a very good ATAR) including every SAC and exam despite missing three entire months in the middle of the year. I competed in the VAS state cattle judging competition at the Royal Melbourne Show. I learnt how to walk again and I can even run if I want to.

It is funny how particular things stick in my mind I remember short conversations with different people. One thing that kept everything in perspective was something someone told me at Melbourne Show about how I would get better, it might take a while but I would.

Since then someone told me no one else would have finished VCE anybody else would have dropped out. Believe me I thought about it, but for some reason I didn’t-I just kept trying.

The only reason I am writing about this is I think others can realise what they can also achieve if they are dedicated enough. It doesn’t matter what you want to achieve just never give up. -Dust and All