Author Ruth Lowry speaks about her recovery

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00:00 I think if you speak to anybody that's had some sort of trauma, whether it be, you know,

00:05 like a cancer illness or any type of illness, when you're in it, I think you tend to be the

00:12 calmer one because you're having to deal with it and you don't want to upset your family and

00:17 friends. And I think as well, for me, certainly, there was never a stage, and I will be really

00:24 honest, that I thought, God, why has this happened to me? All I kept thinking was, I need to get

00:28 better. I need to deal with this. I'm not someone that wants to be sitting in a wheelchair for the

00:34 rest of my life. And there's nothing wrong with that. And I'm not saying that, but it was just

00:39 for me personally, that isn't who I am. I'm very social. And I just couldn't envisage my life being

00:46 that. So yeah, that was probably the main factor of the thoughts that I had was, I need to get

00:52 better. I need to do this.