Robin Foord has scaled the Brecon Beacons after a combine harvester destroyed his leg; jockey Brian Toomey was given a 3% chance of survival but has made a racing comeback. The common factor? An OT[br]Just a few weeks after farmer Robin Foord lost his leg in an accident with a combine harvester,he was sitting in a wheelchair in the hospital garden with his occupational therapist staring at a mountain in the distance. The Sugar Loaf, a pointy peak near Abergavenny in the Brecon Beacons national park in Wales, and had been a favourite hike for Foord and his wife before the accident.
He turned to his OT,Eve Parkinson, and asked whether he’d ever make it up there again. “Eve said I would within two years. I replied, or ‘You wouldn’t lie to me,would you, Eve?’ and she said, or ‘No I wouldn’t,you’ll be up there again I’m certain.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com