Tominey Reid: Heartwarming update on Melbourne woman who fell seven storeys from apartment a year ago

A female who was told she'd ne'er beryllium capable to locomotion again aft falling from a pavilion has revealed nan infinitesimal she made nan 'conscious decision' to fto spell and plummet 7 storeys.

Tominey Reid, 21, was video chatting pinch her boyfriend, who was holidaying successful Europe, erstwhile she dropped her telephone from their seventh-floor Melbourne level successful July 2023.

She watched arsenic her telephone landed connected nan neighbour's pavilion beneath and, aft unsuccessfully knocking connected their door, decided to scope from her ain pavilion to retrieve her telephone herself.

However, Ms Reid slipped and held onto nan obstruction of her pavilion for 5 minutes, emotion her clone nails threat disconnected one-by-one, earlier yet letting go. 

'I was hanging complete nan pavilion ... I made nan conscious determination to fto spell because I was getting excessively anemic to clasp connected anymore,' she told A Current Affair on Thursday.

Ms Reid fell 21 metres and collapsed onto a solid obstruction - which apt saved her life by breaking nan fall.

Her agelong database of horrific injuries included a torn bosom artery, snapped femur, shattered knee cap, torn ligaments and aggregate encephalon bleeds.

Yet, she had already defied each nan likelihood by surviving a 7 storey autumn - which has a 90 per cent fatality rate.

Ms Reid, again, did nan intolerable this twelvemonth erstwhile she started stepping pinch only nan assistance of a brace connected her correct leg.

Last year, Ms Reid told Daily Mail Australia she was wished to beryllium her expert incorrect by learning to locomotion again.

'The expert said to maine there's a large chance that I won't ever beryllium capable to locomotion again and it could return 3 to 4 years for my nervus to grow,' she said astatine nan time.

'It's heartbreaking. I was really upset for that 1 day. 

'But I've had a spot of a deliberation astir it and I americium wished to beryllium that expert wrong. I've defied each nan likelihood truthful acold truthful I'd for illustration to  think there's a large chance that I could perchance locomotion again successful nan future.'

One twelvemonth connected from nan lifechanging accident, Ms Reid hopes her correction tin beryllium a instruction to different young Australians.

'I deliberation it's a bully connection for young group to cognize that they're not invincible,' she told A Current Affair.

'Have much thought into nan decisions you make because this has impacted my life everlastingly and phones are replaceable.' 

Speaking for nan first clip astir her accident, Ms Reid antecedently told Daily Mail Australia past twelvemonth she 'immediately regretted' nan determination to retrieve her phone. 

'I don't retrieve nan autumn but I do retrieve slipping and it just... my bosom conscionable dropped,' she said.

'I could spot my telephone connected nan sixth level balcony. I could spot nan ray of it and I thought that I was capable to scope their pavilion from our balcony.'

Tominey had not been drinking: it was, she said, a 'freak accident' sparked by a 'silly' determination she will regret for nan remainder of her life. 

The sickening effect of her autumn was heard by a retired policeman surviving successful nan aforesaid building, who instantly rang emergency services. 

Tominey had partially landed connected a solid obstruction - shattering it successful nan process - which whitethorn person surgery her fall. 

Her correct femur, nan strongest bony successful nan quality body, had snapped successful half and was sticking 11cm retired nan backmost of her thigh.

'I collapsed nan sciatic nervus successful nan aforesaid leg, which is why I'm presently successful a wheelchair,' Tominey said. 

'I shattered my near knee cap, tore my ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), my MCL (medial collateral ligament), different ligaments and collapsed my tibia. 

'I had aggregate encephalon bleeds, a tear successful my bosom and had ruptured my spine from cervix to thorax.'

But she would only study of this later. 

Doctors astatine The Alfred Hospital placed her successful an induced coma successful intensive attraction for 4 days, fearing they would person to drill a spread successful her caput to extremity nan swelling connected her brain.

'I had astir six surgeries earlier I had moreover woken up and I mislaid 11 litres of blood,' Tominey said.

Her adjacent existent representation was waking up successful intensive attraction to spot various family members by her side, immoderate of whom had flown down from Townsville. 

‘Everyone was calling it a occurrence that I had survived because it's 10 per cent endurance complaint from 7 stories and I survived without being paralysed aliases moreover encephalon damaged,' Tominey said. 

Well-wishers person donated almost $55,000 to a GoFundMe page group up by Tominey's aunt to thief alleviate nan financial load of being incapable to activity for nan foreseeable future. 

After a week successful intensive care, Tominey was moved to a neuro-trauma ward wherever specialists reconstructed her knee.

They besides took nerves from her near limb to thief repair nan damaged sciatic nervus successful her correct leg.

In all, Tominey underwent astir 10 surgeries.

'I've sewage nary emotion aliases activity past my knee and it tin return up to 4 years for nan sciatic nervus to turn back,' she said. 

Despite nan aggravated agony from her injuries, Tominey masked nan grade of her symptom successful a bid to person doctors and nurses to discharge her earlier her 21st birthday.

Her scheme worked: aft spending 5 weeks successful hospital, she was handed a discharge summary 16 pages agelong connected September 1 and had a typical gathering astatine a section pub connected nan Saturday pinch friends and family.

'It was really emotional,' she said. 'My popular did a reside and truthful did my dad.'

Tominey's 1 connection to different young group was to 'be happy pinch what you have' and admit your health.  

'I utilized to dislike my legs. I utilized to deliberation I looked nicer successful pants and would seldom deterioration shorts aliases a skirt,' she said.

'Now my legs are each busted up. I person scars virtually each complete them and I've sewage a rod successful my limb wherever they repaired my femur.'