‘Horses saved me’
“If it wasn’t for this horse, I wouldn’t be here; I know that with every fibre of my being”
JESS DAY
“IF it wasn’t for this horse, I wouldn’t be here; I know that with every fibre of my being. Every day I’m with him, I say to him: ‘You saved me.’ I know it, and he knows it.”
Jess Day had planned for one evening in 2018 to be her last. She had been diagnosed with connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) as a teenager, and told by a specialist it was one of the worst cases she had seen in such a young person.
“She asked what I wanted to do and I explained about the horses. She said: ‘Stop now. You’ll hurt yourself and make it worse; give up,’” Jess says. “She said I’d be in a wheelchair at the age of 25.”
Jess’s condition deteriorated fast and by the age of 19, she was a full-time wheelchair user, and
