The first two times Rose Chin arrived at the basketball court as a 65-year-old, to try out for the Inverness wheelchair team, she couldn’t make it past the doors. “I looked through the window and just thought: ‘I can’t do this,’” she says. “The third time, though, I made myself go through before I could think about it. The team welcomed me with open arms and it’s changed the way I live in my wheelchair ever since.”
Chin was partially paralysed in 2018 after a stroke. For several months, she remained in hospital as she battled through complications and began to rebuild her strength and ability to communicate. “At the beginning, I was so weak I couldn’t even use a wheelchair and I went to a really dark place,” she says. “I realised that I wouldn’t be able to go back to my old life. It felt like hell.”
