After a traumatic childhood accident, Kevin Coombs defied the odds and survived, going on to become the first Indigenous Australian Paralympian.
"I heard the click of the gun and I thought 'God, I think I left a bullet in that'," he says.Looking back, he doesn't blame his cousin for what happened that day as the young boy didn't know the gun was loaded."My old uncle, he had this car … they put me in the back of it [as I was] lapsing in and out of consciousness," he recalls.
"Then the engine seized and we're about a mile out of town. So he got out and ran to the farmhouse and got the people on the farm to ring the ambulance.The recovery "I developed this terrible bed sore, and [the doctors] sent me off to the Royal Children's [Hospital] … I had to lay on my stomach for over 12 months.
"Part of the program out there that is if you didn't do occupational therapy, you had to play sport," he says.
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