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    Stepping into my future

    Jun 04, 2020 2 minutes

    Chanelle Wimbish, 36

    Lying in a hospital bed, I struggled to make sense of the chaos around me.

    Machines bleeped and medics rushed about.

    ‘You’ve been involved in an accident,’ one doctor told me.

    It was August 2009, and just hours earlier I’d been enjoying the last night of my holiday in Virginia Beach, US, with my aunts, uncles and cousins.

    We’d been out for dinner

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