I overcame rare brain disorder but was paralysed AGAIN in a car crash – now I have the strength of a newborn baby
Jade Almond, 16, has refused to let her injuries get her down and hopes to be a football coach or PE teacher one day
BEAMING with pride, schoolgirl Jade Almond runs upstairs for the first time since a bang on the head left her unable to walk.
The joyful clip, shot in February, shows Jade celebrating her final day of physio after seven agonising months of rehab.
Yet just hours after the film was taken, the plucky teen was involved in a car crash that left her paralysed AGAIN.
Even worse, Jade, 16, now can’t move her right arm, go to the loo or even sit up unaided - and feels she has been left with “the strength of a newborn baby”.
She explains: “I am heartbroken. I worked so hard to get on my feet again - and in just seconds I’m back to where I started. You couldn’t make it up.”
Jade, from Abram, Greater Manchester, was being driven with friends to her first dance class since recovery by mum Michelle when disaster struck.
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