In a remarkable story of perseverance and recuperation, a woman who had a crippling spinal stroke overcame all obstacles to restore her ability to walk.
After her life took an abrupt and terrible turn in March 2015, 37-year-old Riona Kelly of Halifax, Yorkshire, was faced with the heartbreaking possibility that she may never be able to walk again.
Her legs were paralyzed from the waist down, and she was forced to face the terrible truth of her new physical limits after being rushed to the hospital.
Five days into her hospital stay, her husband chose to dissolve their marriage, turning what should have been a time of greatest need and support into a heartbreaking moment.
Riona remembers the abrupt desertion when she most needed her spouse. “I was miserable in my marriage, but we had built a life together and had responsibilities,” she says.
