Bríd Stack: A deflating reality check but I’ll keep searching for positives

My heart sank. A distinct 1.5mm gap was still evident in the fracture. The bone hadn’t yet fully healed.

Brid Stack: I was totally deflated. My whole focus all week had been geared towards receiving news on the nerve damage in my arm. I hadn’t even considered any issue with my neck.

Cora Staunton arrived at our apartment in Concord at 7.30 on Thursday morning to babysit Cárthach Óg. He was still fast asleep as Cárthach and I got ready for our appointment with the neurosurgeon Dr Parkinson in his St Vincent’s clinic in Darlinghurst.

We met Kay Joyce, the Giants AFLW lead rehab physio, outside the main door before heading into Dr Parkinson’s office, which was more expansive and high-tech than where we’d met him the previous week in the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Randwick.