Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
Bloom Family Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 November, 2018
Every waking moment, Sam Bloom feels like bluebottle jellyfish tentacles are stinging her feet, legs, bum and back — except when she’s surfing.
In the five years since she fell from a balcony in Thailand and broke her back, Mrs Bloom, 47, has sat in her kitchen, watching the waves roll into Bilgola Beach through tears from the pain of her injuries and the agony of losing her independence.
“I used to be happy, easy-going and loved life, but I can’t say I wake up stoked anymore,” she said.
But her face lights up at the mention of surfing, which she’s been able to achieve with a surfboard fitted with a handle and a pool noodle split in half and glued to the board’s edges to keep her legs from falling off.
In three weeks at a Paralympic-style surfing competition in California, Mrs Bloom is hoping to be crowned world champion in her class of adaptive surfing for competitors with spinal injuries.
But the greatest Christmas gift of all would be a day of unbridled happiness. 


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