Jill Wheatley was late to climbing, but has already bagged six of the world’s highest mountains.
Her case was deemed too complex for Guelph, so Wheatley transferred to ACUTE Center at Denver Health in Colorado, where she continued with intensive neurorehabilitation and therapy.“This is your Everest,” she remembers her lead physician, Dr. Philip Mehler, saying to her, foreshadowing her path out of the darkness. “Expeditions require teamwork. We are your team.
She accumulated many scraped and bruised palms and knees, stitches and even a broken tooth as she learned to adapt to her limited depth perception. There were tears of frustration, and on no less than seven occasions, sunglasses were stomped into oblivion.Article content“Going downhill is more difficult,” she says. She uses visual clues like light and shadows and even colours to help compensate for her lack of depth perception.
“Impermanence comes up a lot for me. Just its power of accepting that the good, the bad, nothing lasts forever. But I think the shift in my story from shame and hiding is really important.” Each expedition costs upward of $30,000. Wheatley says that she is fortunate to have some savings and receives a fraction of her income as a result of her life-changing injuries, but can only climb because Imagine Nepal and other companies have contributed their support, equipment and supplies.“I still can’t believe how strong I felt,” she says, recalling how she passed people on the way up, even as she postholed through the snow. “It’s like some miracle.
Last year, he suffered a traumatic brain injury when he tumbled down the stairs at a friend’s house, and for several months, he wasn’t sure if he would ever climb again. For someone who had spent 7,000 days in the mountains, including over 20 trips to the Greater Himalayas, it was a terrifying loss of identity.
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