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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Olivia Ireland

'It's demeaning': a car crash victim's long road to recovery

Gary Wiggins will reluctantly rely on care from his mother Brenda Cooke after his life was upturned by a road accident. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

On a Tuesday night in Scullin, Gary was driving to pick up his best friend of 32 years to go for a swim. He never made it.

Instead, he found himself in a hospital bed with a broken neck, needing to have rods and screws put in his C2, C3 and C4 vertebrae and have broken pieces of bone removed that were pressing into his spinal cord.

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