Jack Laurence

Eventually, they were able to tell Brad's distraught family that the two men had been found and they were alive.

The entire family ran to be by his side.

To this day, although he's obviously healed in many ways, not just physically, it's obvious that Brad still struggles with this guilt from that day.

Chapter three, That Parachute Guy.

That Parachute Guy

So he's survived the unthinkable, but the battle for survival has really only just begun as ambulance sirens blare through the streets of Melbourne.

He's rushed to the Alfred Hospital, which is located in South Melbourne.

He's still unable to really feel much from the neck down, apart from this searing pain in his spine.

In the ambulance, he's cut from his clothing and injected with morphine to try and help with this pain.

There's not much he can really do except stare at the ceiling of the ambulance, a view that he would become far too familiar with over the coming days.

The ambulance pulls up to the hospital and he's transferred onto a bed and rushed in as doctors and nurses surround him and begin to work to find out the real extent of his injuries.

You've almost instantly now been labelled this thing that would obviously continue on then for, you know, well, even really probably to this day, I suppose.

While in hospital, Brad would undergo every scan imaginable from head to toe as doctors looked at the extent of the damage.

He was still unable to of course walk or move his body from the neck down.

Doctors would tell him that he'd broken his upper spine and fractured the lower half, as well as tearing all the ligaments in his neck and breaking a number of ribs.

However, the doctors also noticed that it was obvious there were more than just the physical injuries that would need attention.

Also, quite incredibly, Brad would only remain in hospital for around four nights in total before he'd go home to his parents, where the recovery really began.

Chapter Three, The Dark Recovery

So with your recovery post this, you know, was there a turning point or is it just a long, very long process in which you possibly, you know, probably still going through now, like you're still recovering, so to speak?

Seven months, though, after his accident, he would be given the all-clear by his physio to walk unassisted, which, of course, was a massive turning point in his overall recovery and getting his independence back.