She rehabilitated at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and later volunteered with the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children.

[12][15] Travelling with her mother and a nurse, in August 1950 she went to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England aboard the Orcades to rehabilitate for fifteen months under the care of Ludwig Guttmann.

[17] Initially, she was to have gone to the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Centre in Oxfordshire after her father met Lord Nuffield, who invited her there.

Prior to her departure from Stoke Mandeville, Ludwig Guttmann had promised her that he would send an English team to Australia to beat the Australians in archery.

[14] By early 1960, she was trying to qualify for the first Paralympic Games in Rome but the birth of her daughter interfered with some of her sporting goals.

[12][11][13][15][25] She competed at the 1966 National Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Games in Melbourne in archery, swimming and table tennis.

Meade was one of five women making up the New South Wales team, with all seeking qualification for the 1966 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.

[25] Competing at the 1972 National Paraplegic and Quad Games in Holroyd, she participated in the final of the women's 4 x 60 m relay for the New South Wales team along with J. Stokes, C. Kirby and G. Milburn; they posted a time of 1:34.1 to finish third.

Todman also finished fourth in the women's class 2 javelin event, behind Elaine Schreiber, Elizabeth Richards and M. Lester, who all set world records on their way to the podium.

[28] Todman traveled back to England for the 1974 Stoke Mandeville Games in Aylesbury Vale, where she won a silver medal in table tennis.

[29] Todman continued to be involved with sports on a national level in Australia until her physical condition deteriorated significantly.

[11][30][31] In November 1955 Todman married Eric Meade, a polio survivor whom she met at the Spastic Centre in Mosman.

While her daughter Angela was delivered via cesarean, she gave birth vaginally to her son Stuart, the first Australian paraplegic woman known to have done so.