Fergus Farrell

Yeah, it really was.

It was just a simple act of lifting a metal bench.

It was no more than 60 or 80 kgs.

And yeah, I ruptured my T9, T10 and the T10 went through my spinal cord at several by 90%.

And as I said, it was a life changing instant in a split second.

Look it, I've come out at the good side of it.

Yeah, and that's a privilege and something that people take for granted every day.

Every step they take, they take it for granted.

So a couple of days after having the operation done, the surgeon sat down beside me and said, look, at 72 hours, if you get movement, you have a 5% chance of regaining some sort of strength.

5%?

Yeah, they didn't say walking.

And if 72 hours pass by and you have nothing,

your stats have gone to 0%.

So obviously I fought for those 72 hours and I guess I did walk in here, but I didn't get any movement after 72 hours.

It was 21 days later and I always remember that moment, half two at night, I moved that big right toe.

Now I'm moved by a fraction, but I said from there on out, I had something to latch onto.

And you know yourself, when you have a progress, you can stay motivated and you can stay fighting.

And that's what I did.

Yeah, yeah, I was.

Because, look, all I had is I was completely paralysed.