Harry Davies, 11, has astounded doctors by waking up from a two week comma, and what was considered by medics to be the ‘worst head injury (they’d) ever seen’.
Harry was cycling home from school when he was knocked down by a car and thrown into the road headfirst. Fortunately, Harry, from Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland, was wearing a bike helmet, which medics believe saved his life. He still suffered a large six-inch fracture to his skull, and had to be rushed to hospital where he was placed in a medically-induced coma on June 3, while doctors attempted to reduce the swelling on his brain by installing a bolt there.
Harry’s mother, Lisa, 46, recounts how the neurologist had not seen this level of a trauma in the brain of a child before, so everyone was amazed when two weeks later, on Sunday 16 June, Harry woke up. He has gone on to make a speedy recovery at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and is now sitting up, eating and drinking and talking to friends and family.
Mrs Davies put his lucky escape down to Harry’s awareness of cycling safety: ‘Medical staff told us that if Harry hadn’t been wearing a helmet he would have died. He’s always been very safety conscious and he wouldn’t have got on a bike without a helmet’.
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