And later in the hospital, she got the news that she was paralyzed from the waist down.

I was 25 when I was injured, so I was kind of at that age where my life was starting to pull together.

I'd met the person that I wanted to be with, and I had a job that I really loved.

And so then being injured and kind of having all of that turn into a question mark was really scary.

When I was in the hospital, we set this goal of trying to build this life post-injury that we wouldn't go back and change.

That was like what we wanted, is to put things in our life that we wouldn't really regret being injured as being this awful thing that happened just like, you know, one of the things that happened in my life.

And that was a big part of my recovery is kind of accepting like, "I'm not gonna play beach volleyball.

What surprised you the most about parenting as a paraplegic?

Leanne, what about you?

What are who inspires you? I mean, I saw a really inspiring piece quite recently, probably the last piece of theatre I saw, actually, which was The Kiss of the Spider Woman.

And it was at a regional venue in Leicester, actually.

And I'd seen that show in the West End probably 30 years ago.

and it was when I was doing A-level theatre studies so I'd kind of studied the piece and I went and saw it in Leicester and it was just very raw and the actors were just fabulous and they really brought the story to life and the set and the design and the lighting particularly was very claustrophobic and I was just blown away by actually a really different interpretation to when I'd seen it all those years ago and I came out of that theatre just Again, a bit like Emily said, I didn't really have the words to describe what I'd seen because it was so visceral and powerful.

And yeah, just quite a small cast, but they were all extraordinary.

Just created these beautiful characters that you cared about from the beginning.

That's... wow