“I said, ‘I’ve given birth to three kids, there’s no way I’m gonna stop now.’ ”

Dazed, she channeled her focus. Family and friends, including former Husker pole vaulter and “American Ninja Warrior” veteran Jessie Graff (who watched via video chat on an iPad) cheered her on.

She followed instructions from fellow Ninja competitor Grant McCartney in the crowd and somehow managed to conquer the warped wall in her first attempt, becoming only the second mother to do so in the show’s 11-season history.

Shortly after starting a subsequent obstacle, the crazy clocks, she fell into the water, eliminating her from the competition. She needed help leaving the course and needed a ride home to Lincoln.

“Any motion or movement was nauseating,” she said. “Picture doing a Ninja Warrior course being on a Gravitron. That’s what the past several months have been like.”

For the past three months, she has visited Madonna twice a week for four-hour rehab sessions. She still works, travels and raises her three kids as a single parent. She’s exhausted at the end of each day and tries not to take on any more than her schedule demands.