PARAPELEGIC

“Paraplegic” follows Avis Townsend’s life altering journey after a December 3rd, 2024 accident that changed everything. What began as an ordinary morning ended when a barn door struck her back, leaving her unable to walk after lying on the barn floor for four hours. She was found by her son and rushed to the hospital. Six weeks later she awoke from a coma to the devastating news that her Legs were paralyzed.

The book chronicles her first year of recovery, an unexpected world of vivid hallucinations, rehabilitation inside a nursing home, and the painful loss of her home and beloved animals. Yet amid the upheaval she discovers new closeness with her family and a deeper understanding of resilience.

Told with humor, honesty, and heart, Paraplegic is the story of a woman rebuilding her life after everything familiar falls away.