5-star occasion rider Liz Halliday has returned residence 16 months after sustaining a critical head damage in a cross-country fall.
Liz, who completed nineteenth on the Paris Olympics, was injured in a fall on the USEA American Eventing Championships at Kentucky in August 2024.
She mentioned as we speak (20 January) she lastly returned residence to Lexington simply earlier than Christmas, after spending greater than a yr in hospitals and rehab amenities in Chicago and Dallas.
“It’s laborious to explain the entire feelings you expertise once you stroll via the door to your personal residence for the primary time in so lengthy … pleasure, gratitude, and a way of pleasure that the entire laborious work I’ve performed over the previous 16 months has introduced me up to now,” mentioned Liz.
“My restoration journey is way from over. I’ve transformed my workplace into a house fitness center and am engaged on getting stronger on daily basis.
“I’m nonetheless dedicated to my weekly remedy periods to proceed engaged on my speech and regaining extra mobility. And I’m persevering with to trip at a neighborhood facility, which has been so helpful in my restoration.
“I’m excited to proceed to enhance, and I’m so grateful to you all for cheering me on all through this restoration journey. I nonetheless have an extended method to go, however I’ll by no means hand over, and I’ll by no means cease preventing.”
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Liz Halliday, pictured at Burghley 2019.
Credit score: Peter Nixon
H&H senior information author
Lucy is an skilled information journalist, reporter and presenter. Since becoming a member of the Horse & Hound crew in 2015, Lucy has reported from main international sporting occasions together with the Tokyo Paralympic Video games and a number of European Championships, in addition to Badminton, Burghley and London, to call just a few. She has coated present affairs and sports activities information throughout the complete spectrum of equestrian disciplines and racing, in addition to human and equine welfare, trade information and courtroom circumstances.
