A teenager who was thrown off her motorbike by a kangaroo spent 10 days in hospital recovering from a ruptured spleen and fractures to her spine.
Jemima Song was riding on her dirt bike with her sister on a remote farm in western Victoria, when the kangaroo sprung out from the trees and into her front wheel.
When Isabel looked back to see what had happened, she saw Jemima lying unconscious on the ground.
"I was on the ground lying there and she was wondering if I was faking it or not so she tried to pick me up to see if I was okay but I wasn't," Jemima said.
A neighbour called an ambulance to the scene after hearing the girls’ screams for help.
David Song, Jemima's father, David Song, has told of how he was scared she was going to die.
"The worst fear was going through my mind that we were going to lose her,” he said.
"She had this massive trauma to the left side of her body, it looked like she had just been hit by a car."
An ambulance helicopter rushed to the hospital, arriving within 30 minutes.
According to MICA flight paramedic Stuart Hill, Jemima’s helmet saved her.
Mr Hill went on to say Jemima had been “really lucky” and that her injuries could have been “a lot worse” had she not been wearing protective gear.
Regardless, Jemima spent ten days in the Royal Children’s Hospital recovering from her injuries.
The teen had suffered a ruptured spleen, ruptured liver, spine fractures and internal bruising.
She couldn’t eat for six days, and couldn’t eat much after that either as her stomach had “shut down”, she said.
Doctors now expected Jemima to make a full recovery by the end of April.
She had a “can do” attitude when it came to getting back to her usual life after getting out of hospital, and returned to school just two days later.
"I wasn't really concerned about it, I just wanted to get back on the bike," she said.
