14 June 2012 – “The road to recovery from an Acquired Brain Injury is a lifetime of small steps. I am luckier than most as I have a horse to carry me on this journey.” So wrote Meg Wade in her acceptance speech for the FEI Against All Odds Award 2011, which she was unable to accept in person due to a last-minute flight cancellation.
Until her fall at an Endurance race in early 2009, Meg Wade was one of Australia’s leading international riders in the discipline.
Her accident left her with a traumatic brain injury. She was in a coma for six weeks and spent nine months in hospital.
“It was when I rode a horse for the first time in November 2010, a fat Appaloosa called Chippie, with Riding for the Disabled in Melbourne that I felt I was really on the road to recovery,” said Wade.
