Vier dae nadat sy haar 18de verjaardag \u2013 wat ook haar kroonverjaardag was \u2013 gevier het, was sy verlam nadat iemand wat aan haar bekend is, haar met \u2019n skerp voorwerp in die rug gesteek het. <\/p>\n
Vandag is die 27-jarige Michelle Daames van Roodewal in Worcester \u2019n inspirasie en \u2019n sprekende voorbeeld van hoop vir menige wat hulle tans in dieselfde bootjie bevind as waarin sy destyds was.<\/p>\n
Volgens Daames het haar nagmerrie die aand van 22 Mei 2014 begin toe sy saam met familie en vriende om \u2019n vuur by haar tante se huis in Roodewal gesit het. Sy was toe in gr. 10. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea haar aanvaller het later by hulle aangesluit en langs haar kom staan. Volgens haar het sy skielik \u2019n warm gevoel in haar rug gekry. Haar bene het terselfdertyd lam geword en sy het duiselig gevoel. <\/p>\n
Daames s\u00ea as dit nie vir haar swaer was nie, het sy vooroor in die vuur geval. Volgens haar het sy hulpeloos en bebloed op die grond gel\u00ea. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea iemand het haar opgetel, in \u2019n motor gelaai en met haar na die Worcester-hospitaal gejaag. <\/p>\n
Daames s\u00ea huilend aan Standard<\/i> sy kon haar ore nie glo toe dokters haar ouers meedeel daar is nie veel hoop vir haar nie en dat hulle hulself moet voorberei om haar te help leer loop.<\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea \u2019n fisioterapeut het haar familie egter verseker daar is hoop. <\/p>\n
Volgens Daames het sy ingestem om na \u2019n hospitaal in Mitchells Plain oorgeplaas te word omdat daar nog hoop was en sy baie graag weer wou loop en dinge vir haarself doen. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk kon myself nie was nie. Ek het die heeltyd net gel\u00ea. Ek was verlam.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Daames het sy ses maande in Worcester-hospitaal deurgebring. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea n\u00e1 ses maande se intensiewe fisioterapie in die Kaapse hospitaal is sy ontslaan. Hierna het sy twee maande in die Hospice in Worcester deurgebring. <\/p>\n
Volgens Daames was sy uiteindelik rolstoelgebonde. Sy s\u00ea terug by haar ouerhuis in Worcester het Wilmarie Marthinus \u2013 \u2019n vriendin van haar \u2013 haar soggens om hul huis laat loop vir oefening. <\/p>\n
Daames s\u00ea sy kon nie terugkeer skool toe nie omdat sy nie vervoer gehad het nie. Volgens haar het skoolkinders somtyds nagelaat om haar by die huis te kom haal en skool toe te vergesel. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea dis toe dat sy besluit het om skool te los. \u201cEk het toe maar by die huis gesit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Daames het sy depressief begin raak. \u201cEk het baie gehuil. Ek wou nie meer leef nie.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea haar familie het haar baie ondersteun. Sy het nooit vir professionele berading gegaan nie. Sy het ook reeds haar aanvaller vergewe en uiteindelik vrede gemaak met dit wat met haar gebeur het. <\/p>\n
Volgens haar was sy voor die gru-voorval versot op resies hardloop en ander aktiewe sportsoorte en speletjies. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea op \u2019n dag in 2020 het \u2019n wonderwerk gebeur toe sy uit haar rolstoel opgestaan en probeer loop het. Sy s\u00ea dit het sukkel-sukkel gegaan. Sy het al langs die kaste geloop en daaraan vasgehou. Sy s\u00ea sy kon voel haar bene raak sterker. \u201cElke keer het ek \u2019n tre\u00eb weg van die kaste af gevat, dan kyk ek of ek dit nie alleen kan doen nie. So het ek aangegaan . . .\u201d <\/p>\n
Volgens Daames het haar pa, Joseph, haar op \u2019n dag meegedeel dat ene past. James Davids van die Ebenaezer Restourasie Bediening van haar toestand verneem het en dat hy haar by die Overvallei-sportklub vir mense met liggaamlik gestremdhede betrokke wil kry. Di\u00e9 klub fokus op basketbal. <\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea sy was aanvanklik baie huiwerig. Volgens haar het sy nietemin later met die klublede begin oefen en kort daarna aangesluit. <\/p>\n
Daames s\u00ea die sport het haar opnuut hoop gegee \u2013 veral toe sy sien sy is nie die enigste een wat gestremd is nie. <\/p>\n
Sy vertel met glinsterende o\u00eb dat haar betrokkenheid by die klub haar baie geleenthede gebied het soos om onder meer na Durban en Pretoria te vlieg. \u201cPast. James het alles moontlik gemaak.\u201d <\/p>\n
Volgens Daames wil sy graag verder gaan studeer sodat sy \u2019n beter kans kan staan om \u2019n werk te kry.<\/p>\n
\u201cAl loop ek nie normaal nie, is ek tevrede. Wat vir die mens onmoontlik is, is by God moontlik.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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