Mark (Star Mariner)
26th November 2011, 21:22
Thought I'd post this in here, as this remakable story made mainstream news this week... Whether it's a case of healing, or just a random fluke, I cannot say. In fact no one can say. I suspect friends in high places had something to do with this:
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Lying in her hospital bed after a frightening bicycle accident, Monique van der Vorst suddenly felt sharp spasms in her legs. The pain was agonising – like electric shocks – and exhausted her shattered body.
But instead of being concerned, Miss van der Vorst was overjoyed. For, 14 years after she was paralysed in an accident, the silver medal-winning Paralympic cyclist was suddenly and against all medical expectations regaining feeling in her legs.
"I still cannot believe I'm actually walking, having sat in a wheelchair since I was thirteen years old," she told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I called my mum and dad and my brother and said: 'You have to come to the hospital, I have something to show you'. They came and just couldn't believe it when I greeted them actually standing up."
Last week the 27-year-old Dutchwoman further confounded all expectations by signing with professional road cycling team Rabobank. She has her sights set on further Olympic glory – although this time, as an able-bodied cyclist.
Story, with Video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15899204)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/8917621/Accident-jolts-paralympic-cyclist-back-to-her-feet.html
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That really would be an awesome conclusion to the story: a paralysed paralympian hand-cyclist heals miraculously, and goes on to obtain Olympic glory as an able bodied competitor. Amazing, and wonderful.
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Lying in her hospital bed after a frightening bicycle accident, Monique van der Vorst suddenly felt sharp spasms in her legs. The pain was agonising – like electric shocks – and exhausted her shattered body.
But instead of being concerned, Miss van der Vorst was overjoyed. For, 14 years after she was paralysed in an accident, the silver medal-winning Paralympic cyclist was suddenly and against all medical expectations regaining feeling in her legs.
"I still cannot believe I'm actually walking, having sat in a wheelchair since I was thirteen years old," she told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I called my mum and dad and my brother and said: 'You have to come to the hospital, I have something to show you'. They came and just couldn't believe it when I greeted them actually standing up."
Last week the 27-year-old Dutchwoman further confounded all expectations by signing with professional road cycling team Rabobank. She has her sights set on further Olympic glory – although this time, as an able-bodied cyclist.
Story, with Video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15899204)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/8917621/Accident-jolts-paralympic-cyclist-back-to-her-feet.html
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That really would be an awesome conclusion to the story: a paralysed paralympian hand-cyclist heals miraculously, and goes on to obtain Olympic glory as an able bodied competitor. Amazing, and wonderful.