Joe De Thierry, 44, first met RDNS NZ relationships manager Rachelle when he was hospitalised with a C3-C4 spinal injury that resulted in incomplete tetraplegia, meaning he lost the ability to move his limbs. “I injured my neck in 2015 and spent nearly three months in hospital,” he says. “After I left there I went to the spinal unit and I was there for three months – I was improving week by week doing a lot of physio.”
It was when it came time to return home that Joe found he needed support as he navigated how to live independently again.
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