As soon as the 100-pound bale of hay toppled from a stack high above and hit her back, Lauren Barwick knew. Everything going forward would be different.
It was the 22-year-old’s second day working at her dream job at a Canadian ranch training horses for work in commercials and film. And in one cruel instant, everything had changed. As she screamed for help from the barn floor, unable to move, she knew. She was paralyzed.
