Para athletics champion Jo Butterfield on turning her life around after an op left her paralysed from the chest down.
Six years ago, Jo Butterfield was told she would never walk again after an operation to remove a tumour from her spinal cord left her paralysed from the chest down.
Doncaster-born Jo, now 38, dealt with the devastating blow with true Yorkshire grit. ‘I thought, “I can’t make myself unparalysed. But I can make sure I make the most of my life,” ’ she says.
While in rehabilitation at a spinal unit, Jo was introduced to wheelchair rugby. ‘When you are in a wheelchair, you are told you can’t do this and you can’t do that, and then you’re put in a rugby chair and told you can hit someone! It made me realise you can still have fun.’
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