It's been over 400 days since the accident that changed a group of young men's lives, and it's the brave journey of Josh Farr that has captured the heart of the Blayney community.
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Mr Farr was one of six men injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Mid-Western Highway between Blayney and Bathurst during the early hours of December 17, 2017.
After months of rehabilitation in Sydney and at Making Strides in Burleigh Heads, Mr Farr is now back at home and settling into a new routine, and his newly-renovated home.
Over the past nine months the Farr family home in Carcoar has been modified to meet the specifications needed to bring him home, and it was a project that Allison Farr said took about nine months to complete.
"There was a lot of particular specifications that had to be met so there was a few design changes along the way," she said.
Now that he's home, Mr Farr said he's looking forward to hanging out with his mates and doing some of the things that he used to do.
"It’s really good to be back near my family and friends. I’ve been fishing with my cousins already and have organised to go shooting with mates," he said.
Mr Farr can often be seen at CentrePoint using the equipment there, but he's now looking for dedicated spinal-cord-injury training.
"Unfortunately there isn’t anything like Making Strides around Orange, Bathurst or Cowra so I would like to stay linked up with Making Strides because that type of training really suited me and we got some really good results," he said.
"Ryan Medley from Dubbo who was injured playing Rugby League was in Royal Rehab with me has just started up a gym in Dubbo with his wife Casey and his exercise physiologist Nic Grose, so maybe we will have to make a few trips to Dubbo to get specific spinal cord injury training."
Throughout his journey he has never forgotten the support that he's received from the Blayney community.
"We would like to thank everyone for all of their help and support," he said.
"It has all been appreciated so much, it has made it a lot easier being so far away for so long knowing we have so many people behind us," he said.