Around Australia in a wheelchair: the four-month camping trip that almost broke us | Droolin Dog dot Net

Months after Kevin Hayley became a paraplegic, he and his partner Emma embarked on an 18,000km trip around Australia “What the hell am I doing? This is completely insane,” I thought, watching as my boyfriend Kev vomited strenuously into a plastic tub. He slumped, shaking and exhausted, back on to a pile of fetid sheets, heated from within by his fever. We were holed up in a motel room in Warrnambool, on the south-western coast of Victoria, on day two of a four-month camping trip around Australia. Beside the bed sat a shiny new wheelchair he didn’t know how to use. Continue reading… Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/25/around-australia-in-a-wheelchair-the-four-month-camping-trip-that-almost-broke-us Tags: *Headlines*, #Headlines, #TheNewz, Cool Spots | #Travel, Real Life Heroes | #Heroes, World News | #WorldNews, #TopNews, #Trending

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