Kerishnie Naiker. Picture: Instagram
Miss South Africa 1997 beauty pageant winner Kerishnie Naiker, has been candid about her journey to recovery following a horrific freak accident which took place in May of this year, leaving her hospitalised.
In July she took to Instagram, detailing what exactly took place which led to her spending weeks in hospital.
“I was accidentally tripped by a tourist while she was taking photographs. While on the stairs from the lighthouse at Cape Point, she walked backwards into me, tripping me down two steps. She tried to get the lighthouse in focus and took one step too far. Even though I am thankful that I did not injure my head and remained compos mentis to get netcare911 to favourably intervene, I did incur a serious injury.”
In the months to follow she has had to go through rehabilitation and after this has left her wheelchair bound. Meanwhile, she is now back on her feet and living life with even more appreciation for the little things we often take for granted.
In an updated post, the 51-year-old shared a video documenting her journey to recovery over the last few months.
Captioning the video, she wrote: “Every unaided step is a celebration…”
“I could write a book about my perspective from a wheelchair but I’ll leave those for another time, suffice it to say that life can change in an instant. We cannot go through life living in anaesthesia. As challenging as the last six months have been. I could not be more grateful for the gift of another day.”
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