Learning To Walk Again

The Summer Learning Journey challenged me to share a story about a time you or someone you know had to face a challenging time and over come it. I am going to share a story with you about my Nan. Nearly 15 years ago my Nan was standing in a tractor bucket chopping down a 90ft gum tree (she was standing in the tractor bucket to reach where they needed to cut the tree) when the tree did not go the right way and feel in the other direction. The tree slid on the scarf (a scarf of the tree is where you cut it on the angle) and rolled onto my Nan's legs pinning her between the tractor bucket and the massive tree. My grandpa managed to pull the right levers in the tractor and Nan and the tree went flying in opposite directions. Nan was scooped up on an old war stretcher and the ambulance was called. At first the ambulance couldn't find the property (it was pretty much in the middle of no where) and when they finally did, the ambulance staff couldn't find Nan's pulse, but she was talking to them so obviously not too bad. After going to the hospital and having her wounds assessed it turned out that she had one broken leg, with a squashed quad muscle torn from the bone. The other leg had been de-gloved, meaning the skin had been torn away right around her knee, with a puncture wound at the back of the knee. After spending some time in hospital and armed with a pair of crutches and a leg brace. The doctors had told her that walking would be difficult and she may not be able to bend her leg fully ever again. But with a lot of determination, persistence and exercises Nan can use her legs fully but still experiences a bit of tenderness if she tries to rest on her knee. I am very glad she is okay!!! Do you have a story to share where someone has challenged something and over come it????

Brave Encounter

My family has been brave. Every member has faced something that needed courage and bravery to get through, for example my family has been brave with, vehicle accidents, braking bones, burns, animals,  internal injures, events like bungee jumping etc .... Today I am going to tell you about a time I had to be VERY brave! It was my 7th birthday and I got a new mountain bike, helmet & riding gear such as gloves, riding T-shirt's and cycling shorts. Dad, Mum & I decided to go for a mountain bike ride, we went on a skinny small cycling track we were riding along when my pedal got stuck on a big tree root, my bike tumbled side ways and I landed in a mine Shaft (which is a massive hole in the ground used in Australia to mine gold) Luckily there were logs across the top, so I only fell about 20m down. I ended up getting a very sore wrist so when we got home Mum & Dad strapped my left hand up. It was a very BRAVE day for me!