Brad Guy

And that's one thing I'm very transparent about when it comes to healing and recovery.

You are going to fall down because healing is not linear at all.

And I still grapple with that because I wish it was just like tick, okay, module 2B complete, onto the next stage.

But it doesn't work that way.

So the first turning point was trying to get back into my job in radio.

I was still a very, very crippled person once I got the neck brace and back brace off, which lasted for four months.

So the December of that year, knocking the door back at the radio station thinking, I'm finally going to get back to work and I'll be a normal person.

I emailed them and said, maybe I need this sort of chair and maybe we have to work reduced hours, but I still really want to come back because I thought this was a lifeline for me to actually live a normal life.

And everyone knew what happened to me.

So it was very daunting going into the office knowing that I am the parachute guy.

I was on the news.

It was palpable, the tension in the air.

But I get brought into the office and I was made redundant.

So I lost that job and...

was back at square one.

It is dehumanising and...

I don't want it to sound too negative, but when you can't walk for yourself as a young 22 year old who was just living the best life before all of this, it's very easy to feel defeated.

But my physiotherapist was amazing in giving me tiny little challenges to focus on.

He said, don't think about the big picture, just get one foot in front of the other.

And I took that and ran with it almost literally.