Hi, my name is Calvin Cheyne. I’m 28 years old, and I’m asking for your help to regain the independence that was taken from me far too soon.

In 2024, when I was just 26 years old, my life changed forever. What was meant to be routine surgery ended in devastating complications, leaving me with a spinal cord injury and a traumatic brain injury. I spent 22 weeks on life support, followed by a further four months in a specialist rehabilitation unit, fighting every day just to survive and begin the long journey of recovery. Against the odds, I survived, but the life I returned to was completely different from the one I’d left behind. In an instant, everything I had planned for my future was turned upside down.l