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Tough few days.

Hope your old man pulls through ok. It takes twice as much concentration to ride a bike as a car IMO. It might have been a lapse. I don't think there's many bikers who've never had an off? I've had my fair share of offs over the years :confused:

 
Hope your old man pulls through ok. It takes twice as much concentration to ride a bike as a car IMO. It might have been a lapse. I don't think there's many bikers who've never had an off? I've had my fair share of offs over the years :confused:
Thanks mate. The last time he came off I was six or seven. I'm almost 33 now. I suppose he's been lucky all these years. Hopefully he'll be able to shed some light on things if and when he's back to normal.

 
There's been no new developments on my dad for the last couple of days although we have had some good and bad news today.

The bad news is that an MRI scan has shown more injury to the brain than the CT scan showed.

The part of the brain effected deals with movement of the right hand side of the body. They won't know the extent of the damage until it has had a chance to heal and to do that they will be keeping him in a coma for the foreseeable future. They think that it may be as long as three weeks until he is brought out of the coma.

He has also got an infection of the throat/larynx because of the breathing tubes. The infection is being treated although they will be doing a tracheotomy because they are worried about irreversible damage to his throat and voice box.

The good news is that the intensive care unit has cleared him to be flown back to the uk. We don't know when yet but hopefully it won't be long.

I'll keep you updated and be careful out there.

 
Good to hear he'll be coming home soon

I'm on my way home now so will give you a shout later

 
Thanks guys. I got back to the uk late this afternoon. My mum is still in Spain. I'll be back in Spain in the next few days unless we hear that my dad will be flown home before that. I'm having a drink with a mate at the moment. I definitely need it.

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Hi guys. I haven't been on for a while but thought I'd come on for a bit and give you an update in case anyone was wondering how things are going. I went back out to Spain on Friday 1st and came back on the Monday. It was good to see my dad again. My dad had come out of the coma by the time I got back to him. Unfortunately, he didn't know who I was. The right side of his body was still paralysed. The plan was to fly him back to the uk on Thursday 7th although I had a phone call the day before to say that he'd had a bad night and he wouldn't be able to be transferred. He'd somehow managed to pull out the oxygen and feeding tubes and the liquid food had started going into his lungs. Then infection set in and yesterday we were told that he now has pneumonia. That's about all there is to say at the moment. I'm going to have to go back to work on Monday. I've managed one half day since the accident. I just can't get myself out there and I'm worried about my mum too. My customers have all been fine but I'm running out of money what with flights, accommodation, bills, etc. The wife has been doing some work although she's meant to be on maternity leave. I said to my mum last night that the constant bad news has to come to an end soon. Hopefully then we'll start getting some better news.

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Feeling for you All mate hope your Dad becomes well enough to return home soon also hopefully you and your family luck will change soon.

 
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Neil give me a shout mate when you're working

If i have a quiet day I'll help you out for a bit if i can

 
I haven't bothered popping round or anything like i usually would as i know you're busy but

I'm about if you need me

Us windies gotta stick together lol

 

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