Not for one second did she think twice about what she should do. Her son had sustained a devastating spinal cord injury as a result of a road traffic accident, which had left him without feeling or movement from the chest down. But she knew whatever happened now from then on, she would always be by his side.
It was 2010 and Chithrani Palipana’s 32 year old son Dinesh had his life changed forever. The Griffith University Medical student’s dreams of becoming a doctor were hanging in the balance, and so were the dreams that his mother had for him.
Dinesh’s subsequent struggle to come to terms with life as a quadriplegic; his success in studying medicine and his ultimate triumph in gaining registration as a doctor earlier this year, have been well documented.
But what of Chithrani? She says it’s no coincidence that she is now on a path towards becoming a
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