Will Pike

I'm very fortunate.

I come from a background where my dad's always provided for us.

We've never been super rich, but he's always done all right.

And so I knew that I wasn't going to be destitute and I wasn't going to be completely out on the street and whatnot.

People were going to be able to rally around, but the long-term implications were just up in the air entirely.

So again, at this stage back in the UK in hospital recovering, Will still really wasn't fully aware of the extent of his injury.

He knew, of course, that he was in bad shape, but he kind of always expected he would recover.

Even if it took some time, he would be back to his old self at some point.

That was until he was told in no uncertain terms that wasn't going to happen.

I sort of lived in a bubble of ignorance around that for two months.

From the point of injury, from the terrorist attack date to when I ended up at spinal injury unit at Stanmore.

I basically was in a general hospital which was looking at repairing my elbow, my wrist, my pelvis.

Despite it being stabilised, they weren't worried about that.

But no one was talking to me about the implications of spinal injury.

My body had been siloed in a way.

You know, you've got the arm guy, the pelvis guy, the wrist guy.

But there wasn't really a spine guy because that had been taken care of in India.

So they're like, no one's really talking to me about this.

I'm getting catheterized.

I'm, you know, being turned at night to prevent pressure sores.