WALKING AGAlN.—Watched by her neighbours, Sally Tyson, of Rochdale, Lancashire, goes for her first walk after being paralysed for 12 years. She did not expect to be able to use her legs again because of a spinal injury, but she awoke one morning recently to find that she could move them. Sally Tyson said she felt “drunk with happiness” when she realised that she would not be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32903, 29 April 1972, Page 9
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77WALKING AGAlN.—Watched by her neighbours, Sally Tyson, of Rochdale, Lancashire, goes for her first walk after being paralysed for 12 years. She did not expect to be able to use her legs again because of a spinal injury, but she awoke one morning recently to find that she could move them. Sally Tyson said she felt “drunk with happiness” when she realised that she would not be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32903, 29 April 1972, Page 9
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