‘He told me I was paralysed and not to move’: How a mum-of-three (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 the 半端物s after horrific car 衝突,墜落 to become a personal trainer and 'Ninja 軍人'
- Lisa Parkes, 44, was 19 and living in South Africa when a drunk driver 攻撃する,衝突する her car
- She was just a day away from competing in the World Aerobic 選手権s
- It took 18 months to 回復する but thankfully her spine was not fully 厳しいd
- But two years later a parasite would send her health to a dangerous brink again
- She spent a year in rehab after it began to eat her stomach, intestines?and 肝臓
- Now Lisa is 始める,決める to appear in Channel Nine series Australian Ninja 軍人
Twenty-five years ago, after a horrendous car 事故 just a day before the most important 競争 of her life, a doctor told Lisa Parkes she was paralysed.
急速な/放蕩な-今後 to 2017 and the mum-of-three is not only a renowned personal trainer to the 星/主役にするs in Byron Bay, she may just be the next Australian Ninja 軍人 支持する/優勝者 as she is 始める,決める to appear on a new Channel Nine show.
Lisa was just 19 when she moved to South Africa and 用意が出来ている to compete in the World Aerobic 選手権s.?
But a night before her big break, Lisa's car was struck by a drunk driver and careened 権利 into a lamp 地位,任命する, she told Nine.com.au. ?
Lisa Parkes, 44, is 準備するing to compete in the Australian Ninja 軍人 障害 course. It will 示すs 25 years after a doctor told her she was paralysed に引き続いて a horrifying car 衝突,墜落?
Lisa's car was struck by a drunk driver and careened 権利 into a lamp 地位,任命する (pictured)
The car literally 倍のd in half and Lisa was 負担d on a 木造の 担架 before 存在 taken into a hospital in the middle of Johannesburg's Outback.?
She spent the entire night on a 固める/コンクリート 床に打ち倒す, 完全に terrified that she would never be able to walk again - much いっそう少なく 追求する her love of fitness.
'This old man walked around and told me I was paralysed and not to move and that I can't move because I've broken my 支援する,' she told the 場所/位置.?
Yet when the doctors returned in the morning, the y 保証するd Lisa she would be okay.
She had broken parts of her spine, but it had not fully 厳しいd - which would have left her fully paralysed.?
There was 神経 損失 and a broken ankle, and it would take 18 months for Lisa to fully 回復する.
Just two years later, Lisa was 直面するd with yet another terrifying ordeal.
She was now living in Singapore, working in health clubs, 令状ing for magazines, and 事実上の/代理 as sports 経営者/支配人 on 高級な 巡航する liners.?
Lisa is now a personal trainer at her own boutique studio in Byron Bay called See Change. But when she was 19, her spinal cord was broken in several places?
But her picturesque world (機の)カム to a grinding hard when Lisa was suddenly going in and out of hospital as her 団体/死体 started 拒絶するing food.?
'They didn't know what was wrong with me, they thought it was my 虫垂, they ripped that out, did a bunch of 実験(する)s, pumped me 十分な of 麻薬s,' she told the 場所/位置.
Nothing was helping, and the number on Lisa's 規模 was getting lower and lower as her 医療の 法案s were getting higher and higher.?
'I thought I was going to die. I went 負かす/撃墜する so much, I lost so much 負わせる, I was 肌 and bone, I couldn't 吸収する anything,' she continued.?
Lisa wasn't even 許すd to leave the country because she 借りがあるd so much money for her 治療.?
Unable to return to her native UK, Lisa spent two months 令状ing for a magazine before she was finally able to afford a 計画(する) ticket and return home for 治療.
Lisa has made an incredible 回復 and spent the last 20 years 充てるing her life to fitness and her three children
It was there that doctors 設立する a sub-熱帯の parasite that was eating Lisa from the inside out - 含むing her stomach, intestines and 肝臓.?
Lisa, now 44, went through 12 months of rehab before she slowly 回復するd her ability to eat solid foods again.?
After so much hardship, Lisa was able to build a happy home and successful fitness career in Australia.?
The mother-of-three now runs the boutique training studio See Change?and will compete in the Australian Ninja 軍人 障害 course.
But it is those 早期に 障害s she 直面するd that Lisa credits with making her the person she is today.?
'My 決意 might not have been as 広大な/多数の/重要な had I not had that 事故 when I did,' she told the 場所/位置.?
'I really 高く評価する/(相場などが)上がる life and I really have that value for life and that it's all about the experiences you have.'?
Australian Ninja 軍人 Starts Sunday July 9 on Nine.?
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