Teenager spent months on stroke ward after horror accident in Ibiza | EUROtoday

What started as an annual soccer vacation in Ibiza took a catastrophic flip for a British teenager who sustained a extreme head damage, leaving him on a stroke ward for 4 months.

Daniel Hurst, then 19, had travelled to the favored vacation spot final May along with his Yateley United Football Club teammates.

However, the journey resulted in catastrophe after Mr Hurst suffered such horrific head trauma that medics initially doubted his survival.

Following a night out with membership members, together with his father Steve, Mr Hurst determined to stroll the 300 yards again to his lodge. He subsequently disappeared, prompting teammates to launch a search.

Several hours later, his father was knowledgeable by police {that a} British boy had been hospitalised with essential head accidents and was not anticipated to make it via the night time.

Mr Hurst was airlifted to Majorca for emergency surgical procedure, which concerned medics eradicating a part of his cranium to attempt to cease the swelling.

He was put in a medically induced coma.

After 4 weeks in hospital on the Spanish island he was secure sufficient to be airlifted to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey the place he spent 4 months on a stroke unit in a mattress for sufferers who are suffering traumatic mind accidents.

He was the youngest ever affected person to be cared for on Frimley’s stroke ward.

When he arrived on the hospital he was unable to stroll or discuss however due to the care he obtained he’s now planning to run the London Marathon to lift cash for the hospital’s charity.

Mr Hurst, who works at an area golf membership, can be again enjoying some soccer along with his teammates.

He additionally desires to lift consciousness that “recovery is possible” after such a traumatic damage.

“You have to keep moving forward,” he advised the Press Association.

“I’ve got the same plans now I did before it happened – I’m trying to improve my golf, I’m running a lot, I go to the gym, things like that.

“It’s obviously been pushed back a little bit, but not a lot.

“I want to help motivate people (with brain injuries) to just keep going forward – your life is never over.

“I know it is hard. There were moments when I thought ‘is my life done?’… but you have got to keep going.”

Mr Hurst praised the hospital workers at Frimley Park Hospital, saying that they’ve saved him motivated.

On the marathon, he added: “Even if I just walk it, this year is not about beating my time last year, it is about getting over the finish line.”

In a message to holiday-goers, he stated: “I would urge people to just be careful and always stick with at least one or two people, just always stay together.”

His father Steve, 53, added: “The message is just, ‘stick with someone, just be wary of surroundings’, like Dan said. This could happen anywhere.”

On the incident, he stated: “We couldn’t find Dan, I rang his phone and police answered.

“They said someone who fits Dan’s description had been admitted to hospital.

“We were told there was a very high chance that he wouldn’t make it – they were quite blunt about the severity of his injuries.

“I had to ring his mum and tell her what happened, it was horrendous.

“Even after his surgery in Majorca we were told that it was an ‘hour-by-hour, day-by-day’ situation.”

Dr Tilly Speirs, guide stroke doctor at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, certainly one of Mr Hurst’s medics, advised the Press Association: “When he arrived we had to start right from the beginning and work out what his deficits were and what therapy he was going to need.

“He couldn’t walk when he came to us and it was a really scary time for his family because they didn’t know what was going to happen and whether he would recover.

“He had post-traumatic amnesia when he arrived… he couldn’t recall what happened the day before or the hour before.

“He survived the head injury but the family didn’t know what that survival was going to look like.

“As a team we didn’t know either but we knew he needed to have rehab and he’s done remarkably well.

“He had age on his side, he had just run a marathon so he was in good physical condition before this happened.

“Dan is a testament that with rehab that you can have a good outcome following a traumatic brain injury, it’s not going to be the same for everybody, it really depends on the individual, but he has done remarkably well and I think his future is going to be as bright as it was before he went on that trip.”

– The London Marathon is going down on Sunday April 26 and Mr Hurst has arrange a fundraising web page at justgiving.com/web page/danhurst20.