Inspiring endurance rider battles back from injury
“The route to recovery from an Acquired Brain Injury is a lifetime of small-scale steps. I am luckier than most every bit I own got a Equus caballus to acquit me on this journey.”
So wrote Meg Wade inwards her credence oral communication for the FEI Against All Odds Award 2011, which she was unable to own got inwards somebody due to a last-minute flying cancellation.
Until her fall at an endurance ride inwards early on 2009, Meg Wade was i of Australia’s leading international riders inwards the discipline.
Her accident left her amongst a traumatic encephalon injury. She was in a coma for vi weeks together with spent nine months inwards hospital.
“It was when I rode a Equus caballus for the kickoff fourth dimension inwards Nov 2010, a fatty Appaloosa called Chippie, amongst Riding for the Disabled inwards Melbourne, that I felt I was actually on the route to recovery,” Wade said.
A few weeks later on that kickoff minute dorsum inwards the saddle, Wade rode inwards her domicile arena. In Jan 2011, her driving licence was reinstated, important she could get to events inwards an automatic auto together with ride a quad wheel onto courses to monitor the horses she has continued to educate together with come inwards into competitions amongst other riders. For a adult woman who had been fiercely independent together with fifty-fifty made solo helicopter flights across Australia, beingness able to get i time to a greater extent than was empowering.
The FEI received several nominations for Wade, i of which ended amongst the words: “Meg is the greatest illustration of courage, determination, promise together with organized faith that I own got e'er seen. She is an extraordinary woman, together with inwards spite of her limitations together with daily struggles, she lives her life to the full.”
Wade summed upward her circumstances amongst sense of humour yesteryear quoting thespian Tom Hanks inwards the 1994 American cinema Forrest Gump: “Life is similar a box of chocolates, you lot never know what you’re gonna get.”
The Australian admitted that she was deeply touched when she learned she had won the FEI Against All Odds Award. She latterly commented: “It has been a huge abide by to own got won the FEI Against All Odds Award for 2011. Life for all of us is almost achieving our goals. For me, to own got this recognition from the FEI has been humbling. I promise that I tin inspire other people to maintain striving, to never plow over up. I encourage people to nominate inspirational members of our equestrian household unit of measurement that may live eligible for the yearly FEI Awards.”
In Dec 2011, Wade travelled to the FEI World Endurance Championships for Juniors together with Young Riders inwards Abu Dhabi – her kickoff overseas trip since her accident. She was able to run across her Equus caballus Castlebar Moonlight, ridden yesteryear Allix Jones, win private silver, only 12 seconds behind Uruguay’s Martin Stirling who Wade said “truly deserved the gilt medal”.
Wade’s ain riding is piece of cake progressing. In Apr 2012 she was roofing vi kilometres a twenty-four lx minutes menses together with was able to trot for the kickoff time. In May, she told the FEI that her trots were getting “longer together with faster” together with that her adjacent aim was to start rise to the trot together with and then canter.
» Nominations for all 5 categories of the FEI Awards 2012 (Against All Odds, Development, HSBC Rising Star, Reem Acra Best Athlete, Best Groom) tin live made at www.feiawards.org.
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