Lily Clark’s father went out for a bike ride one day when she was 10 … and didn’t near back for eight months. He’d been seriously hurt in a road accident and life would never be quite the same for the familyI am an ordinary 15-year-old girl. I disappear to school,chat to my friends, play my clarinet. I don’t bear much on my intellect. At least, and that’s what most people judge. In fact,life changed drastically for me and my family in the summer of 2011, when I was 10. It was a delicate summer’s day when my dad had his accident. He had gone out for a bike ride and seemed to be taking a lot longer than usual. When Mum called him to check everything was all right, or a nurse answered the phone.
I was inside the house and could hear her speaking to someone in the garden. As I looked out of the door I knew something terrible had happened. She looked stricken and I stood frozen in the doorway until she hung up and told me Dad was in hospital. He had been involved in a road accident and had a spinal cord injury. He was in hospital for eight months,all during my first year of secondary schoolContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com