Peter Bilsborough, Tracey’s Uncle, loved the ocean. He had surfed nearly every day for 42 years until Easter Sunday 2010 when the ocean he so loved left him a quadriplegic.

Following on from my first books release in 2012, ‘The Will to Live, The Courage to Die’, in May 2013 I teamed up with my local Rotary Club to put on a spectacular night in aid of raising funds for the purchase of new high-tech chin-controlled wheelchairs for Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.

Pro Hart Original Oil Painting ‘Landscape 1967’ 61cm x 61cm by Ken Charles (Pro) Hart, value: $24,000.

I was deeply touched by spinal cord injury when my late uncle Pete became a ventilated quadriplegic through a surfing accident in 2010.