Tim from Australia here. In January 2015, I was an Aviation Fire Fighter in the Royal Australian Force. At the time I was training for a long course triathlon, and during this time I started feeling weak and out of breath while doing basic training and conducting basic fire fighting tasks. Putting this down to nothing more than a cold I continued training hard. Progressively, the symptoms continued getting worse, however, I wasn’t actively listening to my body and again, continued to train. February of 2015 came around and late one night, having just finished a night shift the day before, I ..read more

  “This is the first time anyone’s going to see me the way I am,” she said. When Christina Applegate looks back, she can recognize the signs. Filming a dance sequence during the first season of the Netflix wine-mom dramedy she found herself off balance. Later, her tennis game began to falter. At the time, Applegate, an actress with an aversion to special pleading, didn’t make excuses. She had to work harder, she told herself. She had to try again. “I wish I had paid attention,” she said during a recent video call from her home in Los Angeles. “But who was I to know?” "Over several ye ..read more

One way Jason Saenz processes his new reality is through his comedy. His one-man show, which he wrote, is called “The Wheel World.” It’s his story of becoming paralyzed.   In 2018, Jason Sáenz was a comedian whose career was on the rise. An accident changed everything.  “I felt like I was well on my way to having the career and the life I wanted in Los Angeles,” he tells Inside Edition Digital.    He’d met a woman named Erin through performing. After months of communicating back and forth, they finally began dating. Their third date was on Nov. 30, 2018.  “We came ..read more

Addison’s story is one of incredible courage and determination in the face of unimaginable adversity. Addison’s journey through cancer was harrowing, filled with countless obstacles and setbacks. It began on an ordinary summer day when she discovered a painless lump in her right breast. What initially seemed like a benign discovery soon led to a devastating diagnosis of Angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Despite the enormity of the challenge ahead, Addison never wavered in her determination to fight back against the disease. She began chemotherapy treatment at SickKids imme ..read more

At age eighteen, Sophie Morgan crashed her car and was instantly paralysed with a spinal cord injury from the chest down. Now a successful TV presenter and disability advocate, today Sophie (37) joins Lorraine on the sofa to talk about ‘Driving Forwards’ her powerful new memoir which details her life-changing injury, her recovery and how she’s turned things around since the crash. She also reveals the special reason she’s got the book title tattooed on her hand and why she’ll never refer to her car crash as an accident ever again. It may sound strange to mark the 20th anniversary of becom ..read more

Para alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft made history at Vancouver 2010. Not only did she become the first woman to win five golds in a single Paralympic Winter Games but she also helped design the electrical infrastructure for the mountain venues located in Whistler resort area. Woolstencroft graduated as electrical engineer from the University of Victoria in 2005 and then joined Canada’s electric utility BC Hydro, for whom she was working for whilst preparing for the Vancouver 2010 alpine skiing competition. “I had to get the right amount of power to both the permanent and temporary faciliti ..read more

Cambry Kaylor was a promising equestrian vaulter with dreams of competing internationally. At age 18 she suffered an accident while vaulting, leaving her paralyzed. “The first week of physical therapy. We were working on my balance. I thought to myself, ‘Just last week, I was balancing a handstand on the back of a moving horse, and here I am and I can’t even sit up on my own. Who am I? I’m not Cambry Kaylor. I’m a crippled version of what I used to be.” Sometimes Cambry is asked if she dreams of going back to that fateful day and preventing the accident that paralyzed her. Hear her answer a ..read more

From star athlete to addiction: Devin Hinchey recovered from his drug addiction and wants to give back now as a counsellor. When Devin Hinchey was 16 years old, he was one of Canada’s top competitive squash players. Then a serious drug addiction derailed his dream. “I’m 19 years old and entering rehab,” “I had played on the junior national team for Squash Canada, I had a lot of friends. It was kind of hard to grasp: this is where I’m at right now.” Lost count of friends killed He and his friends in recovery have lost so many people they care about to overdoses, they’ve lost count. “It’s got ..read more

This is a great special on the life and contributions of Rick Hansen who suffered a spinal cord injury 50 years ago. We learn about how he met his wife, travelled the world and how even today how emotional it is to go to the location where his life changed. An interesting part of his story is his friendship with Terry Fox and how Terry inspired him to do the Man in Motion tour. The following text is by Sandi Rinaldo I remember reporting on Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion Tour for CTV National News. It was 1986 and the wheelchair athlete-turned-advocate for those with physical disabilities impres ..read more

Chelsie Hill entered the hotel ballroom, gazing in amazement at the 100 women staring back at her. For the lifelong lover of dance, teaching 100 people her choreography was exhilarating. But what overwhelmed her even more than the scale was the realization that she was one with the crowd. Every person was on her level—figuratively and literally. One of them approached her, tears streaming down her face. “I finally found friends,” said the woman, who had traveled from Canada to Los Angeles to take Chelsie’s dance class. “It’s because of you.” That brought Chelsie back to eight years prior, a ..read more