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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Simon Sansome

'It's not about what I can't do, it's about what I CAN do as a disabled person'

Back in 2014, I was in the prime of my life. I was 32 years old, had just got married to Kate, and my whole life was ahead of me.

But a month after my wedding, I suffered a spinal injury after treatment for a slipped disc, paralysing me from the waist down.

I spent months in hospital. As newlyweds, Kate and I wanted to spend as much time with each other as possible, but days kept repeating themselves as I was trapped in hospital, not even able to sit up, and Kate was going to work.

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