Live the Impossible: How a Wheelchair Has Taken Me Places I Never Dared to Imagine

Written by Jenny Smith

Narrated by Jenny Smith

When a tragic accident crushes her dreams, can a young woman fight to thrive once again?

As a teen growing up in the 80's, Jenny Smith loved life. But when a spinal cord injury paralyzed her from the chest down, her days of gymnastics and playing music came to an agonizing end. Completely reliant on others for her most basic needs, privacy and independence became things of the past.

Refusing to give up, Jenny struggled along the exhausting, painful, and endless road to living as a quadriplegic. So when opportunity knocked, she risked everything to travel abroad to distribute wheelchairs, play wheelchair sports, and advocate for people with disabilities as a "roll model."

In this inspiring account, Jenny Smith shares with honesty the physical, emotional, and relational hardships facing those with paralysis. And with her revelations and introspection, she guides the reader on a stirring journey full of humor, faith, and fortitude.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Significant Publications
• Release date: Jan 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737086727

Jenny Smith

Jenny Smith has been working as a midwife for 27 years, during which time she has delivered somewhere in the region of 1,000 babies. Currently Head Midwife at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in Hammersmith, London, Jenny Smith is founder of the immensely successful 'Jentle Midwifery Scheme' which introduced one-to-one midwife care at the hospital and turned all profits back into the NHS. Among her considerable accolades is the St George’s Hospital Special Achievement Award, won in 1998 for pioneering work with water births. She is currently working on a number of clinical trials and a paper for the British Medical Journal. Her specialized fields include high-risk pregnancies and deliveries. Jenny Smith lectures widely in Europe and the Middle East on fetal heart monitoring and is collaborating with Philips UK on the latest Telemetry research. Her published work includes medical research and she has also written and contributed to articles for a cross-section of publications, including The Guardian and pregnancy and childcare magazines. She was the consultant to Lucy Atkins book, Blooming Birth, published by HarperCollins in 2005.