A mum-of-one who suffered a traumatic spinal injury in a ceiling fan accident has revealed she is improving just months after undergoing ground-breaking surgery in Barcelona.
Rachel Pighills was moving house when the blade of a ceiling fan struck her in the back of the neck, causing her brain to sink into her spine in something called ‘atlantoaxial instability’ - an extremely dangerous condition that can cause death.
This ‘internal decapitation’, left Rachel in severe pain and even struggling with her breathing which had begun to deteriorate rapidly.
