Stunt Gone Wrong

Welcome to Shannon_Worldd. I am a 20 year old blogger that is here to tell you my journey and how my life has dramatically changed...

5 months ago, I was training to become a Stunt Woman, a very intense and hard career path. But as they say in film and TV, it's a competitive business. I was training 2 times a day, 6 days a week. Intense right?

I had my life planned out.

When I wasn't training to be a stunt woman I was a Supporting Artist. It's a very social and glamorous industry in my opinion. If you like getting your hair, makeup, and styling done by professionals as well as getting free food!

I would then continue my journey with a stunt company. Then, start training for Motion Capture, where I would become a digital character! The big ambition after all this was being fully qualified on the stunt register allowing me to have the official title of Stunt Woman.

Imagine a career in film, TV and motion capture. This was my dream world!

But I couldn't just stick to the plan. I had to push myself to the limit and be good at everything. I could never accept failure. I couldn't accept fear. I had to continuously compete with myself. I am my own worst enemy.

To cut a long and very painful story short. I jumped off a 40 Ft Platform, over rotated in the jump and landed feet first. I dislocated my knee, snapped every ligament, most tendons and dislocated my shin bone. In my 20 years of living I have never felt pain like this and on a scale to 1 - 10, I would have to vote this pain at a solid 11. But I was lucky, very lucky as the doctors continue to tell me. With the speed, height, and momentum I was going at, a couple of inches over I would have broken my back, meaning, I would have been paralysed.

(I have attached a picture of my beautiful knee below!)

Spending 10 days in the hospital, having 2 operations and 5 months of being on crutches as well as being wheelchair bound at points in the recovery. I am still in a massive, bulky brace and have 1 operation to go. I have intense physio sessions to get through and I'm sure, many mental barriers to break. But my life has changed. I will never be able to qualify for the stunt register and explore the journey I had planned. But, I will recover from this injury and one day, everything will go back to 'normal.' For this alone, I have to count my blessings!

But the realisation of what could have happened has been a massive eye-opener and will forever change my perspective on life.

This is going to be an intense recovery but I am prepared. If you have any questions or are going through the same experience then please contact me! I will always reply :)