THIS WOMAN was left in a wheelchair for life after a horrifying reaction following heart surgery left her with a SPINAL CORD INJURY, but strangers keep telling her that she’s ‘TOO PRETTY’ to be disabled and that she doesn’t even ‘sound disabled.’

Online content creator Gem Hubbard (34) from Brighton, UK, had open heart surgery to repair an aortic coarctation at the age of nine years old, but after coming around she choked on the intubated breathing tube. There wasn’t enough time to get Gem down to theatre, so emergency surgery took place in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

The choking caused internal bleeding and left Gem without oxygen for nine minutes. Doctors told Gem’s parents that they feared she might not make it and she was placed in a medically induced coma for five days.

Despite this, Gem pulled through, although the surgical complications, coupled with a lack of oxygen, left her with a T10 incomplete spinal cord injury. Gem spent the next three weeks in hospital recovering before spending the following two years doing intense rehabilitation.

Adapting to life with a spinal cord injury was extremely difficult for Gem as she struggled to fit in with a wheelchair. The one thing that kept Gem positive was her passion for horse riding.

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