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It would be seven months before Sam could return home to Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where she'd have to start her new chapter. She was in a deep depression, she tells
Mamamia. Prior to her injury, she had always led an active life of surfing and running.
“I was devastated to have that taken away,” she says.
She was angry, too.
“We live at the beach and it just rubbed it in even more. I would be sitting here staring at people surf. It would make me so sad. I found it hard to get out of bed, because I had nothing to do. It was like I was on house arrest.”