Source: abc.net.au | Repost Duerson Fund 3/7/2022 –
Kirsten McLeod was on her way home from a VFLW game at Morwell, approximately 150 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Driving on the highway at 110 kilometres per hour, the onset of symptoms was sudden.
“I just lost all my vision,” she tells ABC Sport.
With cars hurtling past her, McLeod did her best to blindly navigate her way from the right-hand lane to the emergency lane on the left.
“I was like, I’ve just got to try and wing it,” McLeod recalls. “It was honestly the weirdest, scariest thing. “I’ve only experienced that once and hopefully never again.”
Earlier, in the game against Collingwood, McLeod had landed on her head and neck. Despite the feeling that something wasn’t right, she managed to get through the rest of the game.