Michelle Blood survived a car crash that shattered her pelvis and broke multiple bones. The driver fell asleep on the Brisbane-Sydney highway and hit a telephone pole. She spent months in hospital but reframes the trauma as transformative, arguing that painful events can become opportunities for growth.
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We were driving about 14 hours from Brisbane to Sydney, you know, straight from stage at 3am I used to pack up all the gear, but at that stage at last, I didn't have to wind all the leads and everything afterwards, but I did anyway. He fell asleep. He went into a telephone pole. And as the passenger, I had huge broken bones all over my body. And it was just, you know, smashed pelvis and all yucky stuff. And I was in that hospital for many, many months. You'd think that that would be the worst thing that could happen to a female sheila rock singer in Australia who loves dancing and doing crazy stu stage. But it ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. Which is why I say to people, no matter what you're going through, whether it's emotional pain or you think you don't have enough money or whatever it is, this too shall pass. You can change your attitude about it because you never know what's going to happen. Because if we allow the things that look really negative to destroy us, well, then we're just destroying ourselves. And we can always make a rainbow out of it if we work hard.