A woman who once spent her days surfing, dancing and coaching gymnastics has revealed how her life changed overnight when she woke up unable to feel her legs. Erica Mays now lives in a nursing home aged just 36 after a spinal infection left her paralysed from the chest down. She had begun working at just 16 as a gymnastics coach, working her way up to assistant manager at an Italian restaurant. “I had the keys, I was doing money drops, I was doing really good,” she says. But she had struggles