next time you drag yourself out of bed and think it's an effort to shower and grumpily start struggling to put on your clothes and do your make up, spare a thought for manon slomkowski the 20 year old partially paralysed french woman has released a video revealing how she manages to get ready every day with the use of just one arm ms slaomkowski suffered a horrific motorcycle accident in the tunnel of nanterre near paris in march 2014 and as a result is unable to move her left arm due to brachial plexus palsy and the nerve damage it has caused in the moving video posted on her facebook page, the footage shows how simple everyday actions have become an ordeal for her 'i am teaching myself every day how to support myself, how to find solutions,' she told the huffingtonpost 'i live with neuropathic pain (unbearable) which also suffer amputees my suffering is physical as well as moral, my body is heavily damaged and tired faster than normal 'normally, we need five nerves to control one arm; four nerves from my marrow have already been torn off, so they are not recoverable, and i have already undergone two surgeries, one of which was a nerve graft,' she wrote in a description accompanying her video partially paralysed manon slomkowski has released a video revealing how she manages to get ready every day with the use of just one arm  the french woman does everything including painting her nails and putting on her watch with her right hand  the 22 year old suffered a horrific motorcycle accident in the tunnel of nanterre near paris in march 2014 and as a result is unable to move her left arm  'when i first came back from the hospital, i remember going up to my room and bursting into tears this is when i first realized what had happened to me and that my life would completely change 'it took me a while to recover my life rhythm, to eat again, to sleep, and to slowly reduce the doses of painkillers 'at first, i had a hard time doing things by myself and everything felt painful, every movement or gesture i couldn't find pleasure in doing anything' she adds that whilst she looks to the bright side, there are moments of uncertainty: 'i am deprived of my passion but also a lot of activities, my family is worried about me and my future' 'what's been the most difficult, and still is today   all people who have paralyzed or amputated limbs will back me up on thisis how to bear the neuropathic pain, also known as 'phantom limb pain' 'this kind of pain is very difficult to manage and some people are completely unable to bear it but there are techniques to help us relieve this pain most of the times, i can manage it, so i'm ok ms slaomkowski, above, lies on the bed and rolls over to do up her bra with her right hand  she then shimmies the bra up her body and over her right arm, above  she says: 'i am teaching myself every day how to support myself, how to find solutions,' 'you can see in my video, for instance, the solution for my bra: one of my friends, who is able bodied, gave it to me, because i was tired of always waiting for somebody to help me hook it up! 'i have always hated somebody else helping me do something or doing it for me 'there are tons of activities i still cannot do by myself my single real fear about the future is for when i become a mother and i need to take care of my baby as a single handed mother fortunately, i have heard from mothers suffering from plexus palsy that they generally do very well' 'if i had to give advice to all the people who have suffered from injuries caused by any kind of road accident, i would tell them 'be happy and fight for your lives,' because you still have the chance to see tomorrow,' she says 'to all road drivers, remember that you are not untouchable, and the 30 seconds when i thought i was almost killed me you don't want that, so drive slowly and carefully'
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manon slomkowski, 20, was partially paralysed in a road accident in 2014  she suffers from brachial plexus palsy and her left arm is unusable  she can  put on a bra, tie up her hair and even paint her nails with one hand  45million people have watched her inspiring video online 