Woman on road to recovery after tumble at Lisbon Falls
"I looked at the beauty, embraced my position, and chilled," said Aysha Seedat, the woman who survived a fall of 90 metres at Lisbon Falls the week before last.
MBOMBELA – Seedat, from Seapoint, Cape Town, was visiting the waterfalls with a group of friends on Tuesday August 10 at about 16:00. According to her, she had been taking a photo of her friend on the spot from which she fell. She went to pose for a photo herself, and the next moment she was falling.
It took emergency workers seven hours to rescue her from a ledge on which she had landed. God carried her down, untouched, unharmed, she told Lowvelder this week.
“I ended up with only two minor wounds and sore ribs. There is also a hairline fracture that was super tiny on my wrist. I believe I got these injuries from going up with the guy who saved me. I was using my hands and legs in the harness in the dark in such tough terrain that I fought to save as much of me as I could.”
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The one injury was a deep cut on the knee, which is healing very well. The second injury is a cut on her lift thigh, which is taking a little longer to heal.
“When I landed on the ledge, where I could barely move, it felt like I was watching right through the middle of the waterfall. I am a Muslim, so I immediately started praying, and I have never stopped praying since then,” said Seedat.
Seedat is the owner of a company called Orthomolecular Solutions, specialising in what she calls orthomolecular medicine. According to the company’s website, it is the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of nutritional supplementation.
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Seedat said she has used her experience in this field to heal herself. “I treated the wounds with turmeric paste, ascorbic vitamin C powder and water. I was lucky I didn’t need stitches,” she said.
“This is a spiritual journey for me, rather than an accident.”
Seedat said she bought herself a nice Nguni rug this week on one of her usual sunset drives from Seapoint to Hout Bay, as a reward for the trauma she had gone through.
