A mum has spoken about how her body felt like it "split in two" after a horrific roller skating accident on holiday left her paralysed from the waist down.
Lisa Beavers fell over while roller-skating in Abu Dhabi in January 2018 and suffered a serious spinal cord injury. The 48-year-old was rushed into emergency surgery and surgeons inserted two 14 cm rods into her spine to stabilise her fractured vertebrae, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Lisa, originally from Warrington, recalls how the fall left her with no felling in any part of her body below her waist. "My feet just went from underneath me and I landed full force on my bottom," she said. "I knew something was seriously wrong because I instantly had no feeling below the waist down.