Crash victim is now a sportswoman hoping to represent NIpublished at 10:59 GMT<\/p>\n
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County Down crash victim Laura McEvoy remembers celebrating all the “small wins” as she began to regain sensation in her legs in the weeks and months after the collision.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t move anything at the start, but as the weeks progressed some things were starting to happen.<\/p>\n
“In my legs, whenever I was trying to like, tense them, it was like wee flickers of the muscle,” she recalled. <\/p>\n
Despite the progress, it was a very difficult time for the young student. <\/p>\n
Two of her grandparents died within a month of her accident and she could not attend their funerals as she was “bed bound in hospital”.<\/p>\n
Laura’s recovery is still continuing nearly four years on and she is “proud” of her progress to date, but the effects of the collision are still very much affecting her everyday life. <\/p>\n
“People see me out and about and think I\u2019m doing well, but what they don\u2019t see is the process before I even leave the house – the pain, the preparation, and the constant thinking ahead.”<\/p>\n
She can now walk with crutches but she also sometimes uses a wheelchair to help relieve her “chronic pain and chronic fatigue”. <\/p>\n
The disability campaigner is also taking on new challenges. <\/p>\n
This month, she signed a wheelchair basketball contract with Cardiff Met Archers and hopes to represent Northern Ireland at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crash victim is now a sportswoman hoping to represent NIpublished at 10:59 GMT 10:59 GMT County Down crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}