"Determination and positivity will get you everywhere. Just being positive. It's the only way to be. I can't change it. Look on the good side of a bad situation," Miss Wilson told the Bay of Plenty Times.
"I'm fine. I'm going to be okay. They can't get rid of me that easy. There was no way I went through everything I went through as a kid to die at 23 of a car accident."
She was born with Crouzon's Syndrome, a condition that meant the bones of her skull were fused together, and had numerous surgeries to reshape her face and head between the ages of 1 and 17.
Speaking to the Bay of Plenty Times from the rehabilitation centre, Miss Wilson said she was excited to be getting out of hospital and moving back into her flat on Christmas Eve.
"I can't wait. As much as they look after me really well here, I can't wait to get out of here and go back home," she said. "This place has been great but I'm looking forward to getting back into normality and being back home."
Miss Wilson, who celebrated her 24th birthday at the end of November, said she still had to wait to get the all clear from her doctors before she could return to her work at a Melbourne hotel chain, but was hoping to get back to work as soon as possible.
Father Craig Wilson said he knew she was a fighter but her miraculous recovery was even more than the family had hoped for.
"She's made wonderful progress. She's permanently blind in one eye and permanently deaf in one ear. She's been walking herself and she's had little visits out of the hospital," he said.
"Her pelvis, obviously that's all sorted and she's slowly able to walk. She can get herself out of bed and shower herself. Her right arm is more and more functional. It's still got a fair way to go but she's learning to do that.
"It's still far, far better than we could have hoped for in the long run."
Despite her quick recovery, his daughter would still need occupational therapy and physiotherapy for quite some time, he said.
