FINDING JOY: Tauranga woman Amanda Lowry, who broke her neck while surfing this year, has found joy in wheelchair rugby, less than a year after her accident.PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER
FINDING JOY: Tauranga woman Amanda Lowry, who broke her neck while surfing this year, has found joy in wheelchair rugby, less than a year after her accident.PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER
This week, we ran a story about Amanda Lowry and her remarkable outlook on life following a surfing accident that broke her neck.
The accident left Miss Lowry without use of her legs, and limited use of her arms and hands.
But she has pushed through doctors' initialrecovery expectations to achieve a moderately independent life with some use of her upper body.
Her determined outlook saw her return home to Tauranga in record time and, 10 months on from the accident, she is now re-establishing her tutoring role at the University of Waikato.
Miss Lowry will return to tutoring sociology in March, marking just how far she has come.