Morgan’s New Journey

17/08/2025

Celebrating my 5th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉 Here’s to the next five!

Just got back from my latest procedure in Perth. Few repairs to the war wagon while I was there, it gets me around town pretty well but the ground conditions out in Kal are rough so she has a hard life.

I take the train down most trips as I can lay the chair almost flat and rest on the journey. It helps to pretend I’m in first class in the sleeper section!

The procedure (quarterly Botox injections in the bladder to prevent spasticity in the bladder & then peeing myself like an untrained toddler🤦🏼‍♂️) really helps my independence and ability to get out in the community. Unfortunately as it involves a camera down the you know what to access the bladder sometimes I get infections afterwards. Looks like I have a UTI now so I’m going to get a sample off to get tested and if needed do a course of antibiotics. If the infection gets bad I might be out of action for a while again. I have to take these seriously as untreated it could turn septic and kill me very quickly.

On a more positive note we are back in KB and I’m planning on a little something to try and get back into a sport I loved doing when I was younger! Update on that soon.

Cheers, love you all, hope you’re doing well.

05/08/2025

Five years ago today, our world changed in a way we never could have imagined. One moment. One motorbike and road train colliding. We were just living our lives then the next moment we were in a hospital hearing words like spinal cord injury, surgery and wondering what on earth our future would look like.

We couldn’t imagine at the time, but it's looked like resilience, humour, and a LOT of trial and error. It’s a journey of learning to live life differently, but fully.
It’s also been five years of watching Morgan do what he does best: tough it out with strength, grit, humour and lots of swearing. He’s faced the hardest of days with severe nerve pain and spasms and being stuck in bed for weeks on end and somehow still managed to crack (terrible) jokes and refuses to let this injury define him.

I’ve watched Morgan face more than most could imagine. He accepts each challenge with courage, determination, and with an unshakable spirit. He has taught me (and so many others) that life is not about what happens to you, but how you respond.

But through it all, his spirit has stayed solid. Stubborn as ever. Brave as hell. And more determined than a bloke trying to BBQ in a cyclone. You are proof that the true Aussie spirit doesn’t need two working legs.

So today isn’t just about what we lost, it’s about what we’ve built. A life full of love, dark humour, and finding strength in places we didn’t know we had.
Here’s to 5 years of rolling forward with courage, cheek, and probably a flat tyre or two (or completely falling off!)

02/08/2025

It’s the little things in life… First game of pool in five years (and Morgan won) 🎱

19/07/2025

19/07/2025

I’m all about fitness😜

20/06/2025

How’s the air up here?

26/05/2025

Looks like it’s going to be a bad day!

21/04/2025

We got caught out today. Despite doing our research and The Valley of the Giants being advertised as wheelchair accessible. It was a very tight squeeze for Morgan to navigate. We got there in the end with only a slight graze on the knuckles and minimal blood!

20/04/2025

Happy Easter 🐣 This year we’ve decided to do something different and headed away for a few days down south. This will be our first family holiday away since the accident (excluding Perth trips for appointments). We hope everybody has lots of chocolate and treats and travels safe if you’re heading away too!

22/02/2025

Cooler weather means Morgan getting out and about for a sneaky brunch. Bring on winter and not being trapped at the house due to the heat!

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! We hope everybody has a happy day filled with lots of food and drinks with friends and family and a safe and joyful new year 🎄

26/11/2024

Another battle win on the board for the funding war!!! Not being able to work atm and not being eligible for disability means I have to request the Insurance commission for everything I need to regain independence! It’s great for covering so many things I need now but it can be like getting blood from a stone. Luckily I have a strong upper body and nothing better to do than fight them for the funding I need!!! It’s a shame I have to waste so much time fighting for funding rather than focussing on rehab but it keeps my brain active learning their system!

Having roller doors is going to save me a lot of time and energy getting my car and equipment trailer in and out of the shed to access the community by myself. Without them I have to open the shed, transfer into the car. Pull my wheelchair apart and put it in the car. Drive out of the shed, put the wheelchair back together, transfer into wheelchair, shut shed, transfer back into car, pull wheelchair apart etc then do it all again if I need trailer and or when I put car away.

Doubt if it’ll be done this year but hopefully early next year I can be out and about again! I also got word that ICWA is going to fund a computer course, cert 3 in business & cert 4 training & assessing so I can start reskilling and hopefulling get back into the workforce!

Slowly picking up momentum and working all this out!

Cheers, hope everyone is well!