Imagine waking up one morning at the age of 28 and suddenly not being able to see the room you’re in. Your heart would be racing in fright, your brain moving a million miles an hour.
I simply could not fathom what would be going on in my head.
And it’s something the majority of us would never even contemplate happening to our bodies, but it did happen – to UK-born Natasha Price in late 2008.
In 2008, Natasha was left legally blind almost overnight, and paralysed within a month after a rare neurological disease made itself known to her, affecting her for the rest of her life – so rare, in fact, there is no name for it. Three years later, another relapse left her completely paralysed from the neck down for several months, but since 2012 the now 42-year-old has been stable despite a decade of being bed-bound.
A sudden decision one day whilst in bed though was the kickstart she needed to make positive changes, ultimately leading her to become a wheelchair athlete.
“I was watching the Gold Coast Marathon on television, and said to my family that I was going to
