A NURSERY worker is making an extraordinary recovery after suffering a serious brain injury after a crash with a horse.
Leanne Gray, 27, from Redruth, was driving to work at Hurly Burly Nursery, Goonbell, when the accident happened 13 weeks ago.
Her father Roger, 56, an MoD administrator at the TA barracks in Truro, chipped his vertebrae and suffered cuts and bruising.
Leanne suffered swelling to the brain and was taken to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, and then Royal Cornwall Hospital where she spent a month drifting in and out of consciousness, heavily sedated and fed through a tube. Both had to be cut from their Peugeot following the crash on the B3277 Teagle straight which left two horses dead.
In her first interview since the accident, Leanne said she remembered nothing.
"I've lost two months. I don't remember getting up that morning. Dad recalls waking up in the wrecked car and seeing me unconscious in the passenger seat."
As soon as she was strong enough Leanne was transferred to Marie Therese House neuro-rehabilitation unit in Hayle, where she underwent weeks of painstaking physiotherapy learning to walk and talk again. Last week she was finally signed off by specialists at Derriford and sent home.
"It's weird to be back home. At Marie Therese I was having daily physio which got me out of the wheelchair and walking again. They said I was a special case because it normally takes people months to recover, not weeks. I want to get back to what I used to do and just be who I am."
Leanne even has her sights on returning to work and teaching at the Bev-Lyn School of Dance. Her father, who hopes to be given the all-clear to start work in May, said it has been a traumatic few months.
"I was lying in A&E with screens around me. I could hear doctors talking about someone, it didn't sound good. Then I realised it was Leanne.
"She had a cardiac arrest in the ambulance and is lucky to be here. She still has no feeling in the bottom of her right leg, but has come on in leaps and bounds."
Leanne Gray, 27, from Redruth, was driving to work at Hurly Burly Nursery, Goonbell, when the accident happened 13 weeks ago.
Her father Roger, 56, an MoD administrator at the TA barracks in Truro, chipped his vertebrae and suffered cuts and bruising.
Leanne suffered swelling to the brain and was taken to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, and then Royal Cornwall Hospital where she spent a month drifting in and out of consciousness, heavily sedated and fed through a tube. Both had to be cut from their Peugeot following the crash on the B3277 Teagle straight which left two horses dead.
In her first interview since the accident, Leanne said she remembered nothing.
"I've lost two months. I don't remember getting up that morning. Dad recalls waking up in the wrecked car and seeing me unconscious in the passenger seat."
As soon as she was strong enough Leanne was transferred to Marie Therese House neuro-rehabilitation unit in Hayle, where she underwent weeks of painstaking physiotherapy learning to walk and talk again. Last week she was finally signed off by specialists at Derriford and sent home.
"It's weird to be back home. At Marie Therese I was having daily physio which got me out of the wheelchair and walking again. They said I was a special case because it normally takes people months to recover, not weeks. I want to get back to what I used to do and just be who I am."
Leanne even has her sights on returning to work and teaching at the Bev-Lyn School of Dance. Her father, who hopes to be given the all-clear to start work in May, said it has been a traumatic few months.
"I was lying in A&E with screens around me. I could hear doctors talking about someone, it didn't sound good. Then I realised it was Leanne.
"She had a cardiac arrest in the ambulance and is lucky to be here. She still has no feeling in the bottom of her right leg, but has come on in leaps and bounds."
shes so brave keep it going leanne bless you yet a horrendus,heart breaking&painsteaking truely awfull event in this younge ladys life shes got to be one of the most posative&inspireing humbeling humanbeing Ive ever read about following the news her journey amazeing made me rethink alot onn life flipin heck girl well done your truely a fighter absolutely amazing youve sertainly inspired&put the fight back into me so humbleing xx !!!
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