Anna Ferguson

I had just gotten into national athletics and for high jump of all the things, I'm super short.

So

I was like chuffed that I had gotten into high jump.

So I wasn't allowed to do anything.

I wasn't allowed to go back to school like for a full day because it was too intense.

And so I would go for an hour and then come home.

So not only was I like physically not able to do the things that I wanted to do, but I was also removed from my peer group.

So I had weird school hours.

So I was like the weird kid that almost died on the roller coaster accident who also can't come to school.

for the whole day either because it's too much for.

And, you know, my heart rate is still elevated to this day.

Like my resting heart rate is still elevated.

I went back to the children's hospital every year until I was 18 years old.

I used to have to have halter monitors and take them in school and put them in my pocket.

I have all these like tabs on my chest.

And that was just something that became normal for me.

And I was quite resentful of it as well.

Yeah.

So when your heart gets damaged, especially like a bruising, it doesn't repair.

Say you get a bruise on your arm, it doesn't repair in the same way.