Leonie Dean has credited an occupational therapist with helping her to adapt to her new life. Photo: PR IMAGE PHOTO

Leonie Dean had been carrying a bag of cat litter from the supermarket when she suddenly collapsed.

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Unbeknownst to her, those would be the last steps she would take.

Years earlier, the budding spray-painter from the Adelaide Hills had lost function in her dominant right hand.

Ms Dean, who has been paraplegic because of a neurological condition for more than nine years, no longer plays the saxophone she loves, and her passion for driving manual cars now looks very dif

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