.The Monsters number eight had quite recently completed lunch at a family grill close Shower.
In any case, one "oddity" minute later - as he plunged into the shallow end of a pool supposing it was the profound end - left the 28-year-old with a broken neck.
Jackson was told at the time he may not walk once more.
Presently, after over 11 weeks of tiresome recuperation and restoration at three distinct healing centers, he will be permitted to go home.
He is still in a wheelchair and he will never play rugby again. Be that as it may, he has recaptured noteworthy development in his arms and legs.
What's more, having skimmed in the pool instantly after the occurrence just ready to move his eyes and mouth, Jackson is thankful basically to have gained so much ground.
Mythical beasts player has surgery after neck damage
I lost development in my legs and power in my grasp
Players' union philanthropy's help for harmed player
Remembering occasions
Jackson's capacity to sincerely relate the episode that adjusted his life always has helped him in his recuperation.
"They had a pool at their home and I wasn't in it earlier," said Jackson.
"I strolled over and they had this water include off the side of the stone face alongside the pool.
"I bounced and made a plunge where the waterfall went into the pool and went straight to the base and whacked my head.
"It ended up being just four feet profound. I pondered 10 feet.
"I thought 'that hurt' and couldn't hold up.
"I had some power in my correct side so could pull myself up over the water and just said "help" before sinking down.
"I had this abnormal feeling, an 'is this it?' kind of minute, yet fortunately I had a few companions in the pool and my father who knew I wasn't messing around.
"In the event that it had been a gathering of fellows on vacation possibly they would have bounced over me.
"My father is a resigned specialist and knew straightaway there was some kind of problem with my neck.
"I additionally had a chopped down the center of my head so there was a great deal of blood over my face.
"He held my head consistent, glided me to the pool edge and sat tight for the emergency vehicle. He was a decent, quieting impact.
"I had development on my correct side however as I lay there, gradually everything vanished until the point when it was quite recently my mouth and eyes working which was alarming.
"I recall for all intents and purposes everything. I wasn't terrifying or frightened.
"I knew I had accomplished something terrible yet was all the while attempting to split jokes with my mate Daf.
"I don't know whether it was stun but rather there was an irregular feeling of quiet, while everybody's freezing around you."
Perfect time, opportune place?
Jackson trusts his dad's poise and medicinal preparing, in addition to the closeness of an expert healing facility were central point in his recuperation.
"half of harm in spinal-rope wounds occur after the occasion from being moved around," he said.
"I was blessed my father was there and I could glide in a pool. They drifted the spinal board underneath me and selected.
"I feel fortunate not to have more harm. I was near one of the main spinal focuses in the UK in Southmead in Bristol, as far as intense surgery.
"They took one take a gander at the X-ray examines and hurried me straight into surgery.
"I figured out how to get worked on inside seven to eight hours, another huge factor in spinal wounds."
Understanding the harm
Jackson had cracked and disengaged the C6 and C7 vertebrae and smashed the plate between them.
His spinal line was affected and incompletely smashed, bringing about harm, swelling and spinal stun.
Jackson was at first told he may never walk again.
"They revealed to me I won't not recover any development," said Jackson.
"Before I went into the operation, the specialist said things that could happen, one of them being passing, which was intriguing.
"My fiancee, mum and stepmum were in the holding up stay with my father. They were told this was a genuine operation and a possibility I won't not endure.
"My father let them know not to freeze since he knew specialists have a tendency to be mindful and dependably give you most pessimistic scenario situations."
Jackson had no underlying development starting from the chest and conceded he persevered through extreme circumstances before the shoots of recuperation.
"It was troublesome, toward the begin, more often than not during the evening when none of your family and companions are there and you are in escalated mind, it's every minute of every day," said Jackson.
"I couldn't swallow so I was not really resting. I couldn't hack and somebody needed to come in with a suction tube.
"You think how much more awful would it be able to get however as time proceeds onward, you begin to advance.
"I was planning to get arm development back to be free. I never needed to be a bother."
Greatest joy
Jackson played for Shower, Wasps, London Welsh and the Monsters and was a bullocking, ball-conveying back-rower, who at 6ft 4in and 17 stone controlled through resistance barriers.
Presently he was delighting in the scarcest physical action.
"My fingers began moving first," said Jackson.
"The greatest delight was seeing my correct toe squirm following quite a while of gazing at my foot attempting yet nothing happening.
"That first minute I saw the flag from my cerebrum heading off to my foot was huge in light of the fact that you had something to work with.
"Little wins like that have been going on finished the most recent two months, which are greater than any class title.
"I have been living astonishing minutes with tears of happiness throughout the most recent three months. You don't get that in typical life."
Remembering his story
Jackson has been diagramming his recuperation in an online networking blog which has pulled in the consideration of medicinal callings, Paralympians and other individuals in his circumstance.
"I was keeping an individual journal when I could utilize my hands and thought that it was helpful," said Jackson.
"I was convinced by companions to make it open and thought it could help two or three individuals.
"In a little while it went insane, circumventing diverse healing facilities with attendants and physios understanding it.
"I had some extraordinary criticism and I am currently in contact with some Paralympian gold medallists and astonishing individuals in my circumstance.
"You can't show signs of improvement contribution from individuals who have been through it themselves.
"I think I have helped a couple of individuals however in the event that anything it has helped me greatly. Presently I simply need to prop it up."
Family bolster
Jackson says his recuperation has been helped by the encouraging group of people of family, companions and fiancee Lois Rideout, who plays netball for Cardiff-based Celtic Winged serpents.
"They have been mind blowing," said Jackson.
"You don't understand until the point that you are in a circumstance like this about how great a system of individuals you have.
"My fiancee Lois has been a holy person, she has been in consistently. She is essentially my own private physio now since she has sat in on every one of the sessions.
"My family have been splendid and old fashioned companions are continually going by me. I am fortunate on the grounds that a few people don't have that."What next after rugby?
"I have been clearly advised I am not going to play proficient rugby once more," said Jackson.
"On the off chance that somebody had said that to me some time recently, that would have been appalling. It was all I had ever known, what was I going to do?
"I am getting my head around things yet there are more imperative things, such as attempting to have the capacity to walk once more.
"Presently the young men are back pre-season and I am not backpedaling into preparing, it's beginning to hit home.
"The Mythical serpents have been strong and the rugby group's reaction has been amazing. I have had messages from everywhere throughout the world which is lowering. Individuals who have I never met or just played against on more than one occasion."
Managing the monetary cost
Jackson conceded the subject of protection was uncertain and his anticipates life after rugby yet to be defined.
He has been helped by the Restart program, some portion of the Rugby Players' Affiliation, which has allowed him cash for restoration to help connect the budgetary crevice.
The Matt Hampson Establishment - begun by the previous Leicester prop who was left deadened after damage - is additionally helping by paying for his wheelchair.
"I haven't proceeded onward in my mind that far," said Jackson.
In any case, one "oddity" minute later - as he plunged into the shallow end of a pool supposing it was the profound end - left the 28-year-old with a broken neck.
Jackson was told at the time he may not walk once more.
Presently, after over 11 weeks of tiresome recuperation and restoration at three distinct healing centers, he will be permitted to go home.
He is still in a wheelchair and he will never play rugby again. Be that as it may, he has recaptured noteworthy development in his arms and legs.
What's more, having skimmed in the pool instantly after the occurrence just ready to move his eyes and mouth, Jackson is thankful basically to have gained so much ground.
Mythical beasts player has surgery after neck damage
I lost development in my legs and power in my grasp
Players' union philanthropy's help for harmed player
Remembering occasions
Jackson's capacity to sincerely relate the episode that adjusted his life always has helped him in his recuperation.
"They had a pool at their home and I wasn't in it earlier," said Jackson.
"I strolled over and they had this water include off the side of the stone face alongside the pool.
"I bounced and made a plunge where the waterfall went into the pool and went straight to the base and whacked my head.
"It ended up being just four feet profound. I pondered 10 feet.
"I thought 'that hurt' and couldn't hold up.
"I had some power in my correct side so could pull myself up over the water and just said "help" before sinking down.
"I had this abnormal feeling, an 'is this it?' kind of minute, yet fortunately I had a few companions in the pool and my father who knew I wasn't messing around.
"In the event that it had been a gathering of fellows on vacation possibly they would have bounced over me.
"My father is a resigned specialist and knew straightaway there was some kind of problem with my neck.
"I additionally had a chopped down the center of my head so there was a great deal of blood over my face.
"He held my head consistent, glided me to the pool edge and sat tight for the emergency vehicle. He was a decent, quieting impact.
"I had development on my correct side however as I lay there, gradually everything vanished until the point when it was quite recently my mouth and eyes working which was alarming.
"I recall for all intents and purposes everything. I wasn't terrifying or frightened.
"I knew I had accomplished something terrible yet was all the while attempting to split jokes with my mate Daf.
"I don't know whether it was stun but rather there was an irregular feeling of quiet, while everybody's freezing around you."
Perfect time, opportune place?
Jackson trusts his dad's poise and medicinal preparing, in addition to the closeness of an expert healing facility were central point in his recuperation.
"half of harm in spinal-rope wounds occur after the occasion from being moved around," he said.
"I was blessed my father was there and I could glide in a pool. They drifted the spinal board underneath me and selected.
"I feel fortunate not to have more harm. I was near one of the main spinal focuses in the UK in Southmead in Bristol, as far as intense surgery.
"They took one take a gander at the X-ray examines and hurried me straight into surgery.
"I figured out how to get worked on inside seven to eight hours, another huge factor in spinal wounds."
Understanding the harm
Jackson had cracked and disengaged the C6 and C7 vertebrae and smashed the plate between them.
His spinal line was affected and incompletely smashed, bringing about harm, swelling and spinal stun.
Jackson was at first told he may never walk again.
"They revealed to me I won't not recover any development," said Jackson.
"Before I went into the operation, the specialist said things that could happen, one of them being passing, which was intriguing.
"My fiancee, mum and stepmum were in the holding up stay with my father. They were told this was a genuine operation and a possibility I won't not endure.
"My father let them know not to freeze since he knew specialists have a tendency to be mindful and dependably give you most pessimistic scenario situations."
Jackson had no underlying development starting from the chest and conceded he persevered through extreme circumstances before the shoots of recuperation.
"It was troublesome, toward the begin, more often than not during the evening when none of your family and companions are there and you are in escalated mind, it's every minute of every day," said Jackson.
"I couldn't swallow so I was not really resting. I couldn't hack and somebody needed to come in with a suction tube.
"You think how much more awful would it be able to get however as time proceeds onward, you begin to advance.
"I was planning to get arm development back to be free. I never needed to be a bother."
Greatest joy
Jackson played for Shower, Wasps, London Welsh and the Monsters and was a bullocking, ball-conveying back-rower, who at 6ft 4in and 17 stone controlled through resistance barriers.
Presently he was delighting in the scarcest physical action.
"My fingers began moving first," said Jackson.
"The greatest delight was seeing my correct toe squirm following quite a while of gazing at my foot attempting yet nothing happening.
"That first minute I saw the flag from my cerebrum heading off to my foot was huge in light of the fact that you had something to work with.
"Little wins like that have been going on finished the most recent two months, which are greater than any class title.
"I have been living astonishing minutes with tears of happiness throughout the most recent three months. You don't get that in typical life."
Remembering his story
Jackson has been diagramming his recuperation in an online networking blog which has pulled in the consideration of medicinal callings, Paralympians and other individuals in his circumstance.
"I was keeping an individual journal when I could utilize my hands and thought that it was helpful," said Jackson.
"I was convinced by companions to make it open and thought it could help two or three individuals.
"In a little while it went insane, circumventing diverse healing facilities with attendants and physios understanding it.
"I had some extraordinary criticism and I am currently in contact with some Paralympian gold medallists and astonishing individuals in my circumstance.
"You can't show signs of improvement contribution from individuals who have been through it themselves.
"I think I have helped a couple of individuals however in the event that anything it has helped me greatly. Presently I simply need to prop it up."
Family bolster
Jackson says his recuperation has been helped by the encouraging group of people of family, companions and fiancee Lois Rideout, who plays netball for Cardiff-based Celtic Winged serpents.
"They have been mind blowing," said Jackson.
"You don't understand until the point that you are in a circumstance like this about how great a system of individuals you have.
"My fiancee Lois has been a holy person, she has been in consistently. She is essentially my own private physio now since she has sat in on every one of the sessions.
"My family have been splendid and old fashioned companions are continually going by me. I am fortunate on the grounds that a few people don't have that."What next after rugby?
"I have been clearly advised I am not going to play proficient rugby once more," said Jackson.
"On the off chance that somebody had said that to me some time recently, that would have been appalling. It was all I had ever known, what was I going to do?
"I am getting my head around things yet there are more imperative things, such as attempting to have the capacity to walk once more.
"Presently the young men are back pre-season and I am not backpedaling into preparing, it's beginning to hit home.
"The Mythical serpents have been strong and the rugby group's reaction has been amazing. I have had messages from everywhere throughout the world which is lowering. Individuals who have I never met or just played against on more than one occasion."
Managing the monetary cost
Jackson conceded the subject of protection was uncertain and his anticipates life after rugby yet to be defined.
He has been helped by the Restart program, some portion of the Rugby Players' Affiliation, which has allowed him cash for restoration to help connect the budgetary crevice.
The Matt Hampson Establishment - begun by the previous Leicester prop who was left deadened after damage - is additionally helping by paying for his wheelchair.
"I haven't proceeded onward in my mind that far," said Jackson.