The Unforgiving60
The Unforgiving60
Ben Pronk, DSC & Tim Curtis
S4E17 – Life in Bloom: Sam and Cam Bloom on Life, Adversity, Growth and Love
1 hour 20 minutes Posted Sep 15, 2022 at 12:30 am.
Sam and Cam’s background, and how they met…
Talking the importance of travel in the like of the Blooms
That fateful trip to Thailand
Moving hospital to hospital… to hospital
Sam’s recollection of the incident
‘Memories are so subjective’
When Sam realises the severity of the incident…
Cam is mopping up and trying to hold it together while Sam spends months in hospital
Sam arrives home… and its not how you think she would be
Enter penguin .. a fluffy magpie chick. Life changes
Cam and his accompanying photography. What he couldn’t photograph
How about the impact on the boys?
How the book started
Recruiting the actors for the movie version of the book
Doing time with their Hollywood counterparts… and shooting in their own home
Sam reconnects with her passion of surfing
SurfLakes Yeppoon … artificial surf facility in Queensland
Australian ChampionshipsSurfing …and what’s next
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Show notes
Our chat today is with world champion para-surfer Sam Bloom, and her husband Cam. Born on the Northern  Beaches of Sydney, Sam had everything she had always dreamed of. She’d travelled extensively, fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a nurse and was a happily married mother of three young boys.
But without warning, the dream turned into a nightmare when on a 2013 family holiday in Thailand, Sam fell through a rotten balcony railing and crashed six metres onto the concrete below.
Lucky to be alive, she’d suffered devastating injuries, including severe damage to her spinal cord that left her paralysed from the chest down. Broken and hopeless, Sam reached her outer limits of physical and mental suffering. But with courage, determination and a little help from an unlikely feathered friend, she made her way back from the edge, scarred but undefeated. 'How' is the subject of this podcast episode.
 
 
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The Externals – available on Spotify
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