Amazing crash recovery
Larissa was told she would never walk again
LARISSA Rosentreter was told she would never walk again following a motorbike accident near Blackbutt last year.
Now the 19-year-old from Crow’s Nest is not only learning to walk again, but she said she hoped to one day hop back on a bike.
“I believe no matter what happens I shouldn’t let what happened come in between my goals and my happiness,” Miss Rosentreter said.
“I love riding motorbikes, I’m extremely happy when I’m riding. No one will take that away from me, if I can get on a bike one day I will, it’s working towards getting back on there.”
Larissa was riding on a trail on November 11 last year when her bike hit a hole.
“My bike then spun out of control into a massive log, basically my back landed straight on the log and my right leg went under it,” she said.
“I was airlifted here to the Princess Alexandra Hospital and have been here ever since.
“Since Christmas they have let me go home on weekends.”
Larissa shattered a vertebra on her lower spine which left her paralysed from the waist down, broke her ribs and had breaks all throughout the right side of her pelvis.
For the past four months she has been kept in the spinal ward at the PA hospital, undergoing months of intensive rehabilitation. She said that distance had been hard for her family.
“They had to fork out money for accommodation for a whole month and now the fuel for when I go home on weekends,” she said
She said her recovery was going better than expected and she hoped to be out of hospital in April.
“I believe it’s because of mindset and focus to get out of here for my family and my partner that helped me to get through it,” she said.
“I never thought I’d have to learn how to walk again.
“Hard work and determination can get you where you want to be. Life is too short to be down and upset about what happened.”
A GoFundMe has been launched to help with medical costs. It can be found at http:// bit.ly/2GtXNI9.