How a Pretty Teen Grew Up to Marry the Surgeon Who Said She'd Never Walk Again

Western MailJune 16, 2005

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A surgeon forced to tell a 15-year-old girl injured in a road smash 'You'll never walk again' has married her 25 years after their traumatic first meeting.Melanie Davies was a pillion passenger on her boyfriend's powerful motorcycle on a Saturday afternoon in May, 1980 when her life changed for ever. The bike left the roadway on a bend on the Aberavon seafront and crashed into a wall.

The rider escaped with cuts and bruises, but teenager Melanie's spine was broken.

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How a Pretty Teen Grew Up to Marry the Surgeon Who Said She'd Never Walk Again

She was taken by ambulance to Neath General Hospital where consultant orthopaedic surgeon Mike Davies, then a 38-year-old with a family, was on duty.

He said yesterday, 'I still remember her vividly coming in and looking at th...

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