It was no ordinary day when primary school teacher Kath Tregenna stepped back into the classroom. Nearly two years had passed since she’d last stood in front of her learners; two life-changing years in which she’d had to come to terms with losing both her arms and legs.
But the courageous teacher was determined to return to the job she loved, and with the financial and emotional help of her school and family and some whizz-bang technology, she found herself at the blackboard again facing a sea of children, agog at her bionic arms.
Just a couple of days before Christmas in 2019, Kath (47), a teacher at the International School of London in the UK, suddenly started to feel ill. As she left school that Friday afternoon she felt feverish and thought she was coming down something.