A boy who was seriously injured in a Gold Coast helicopter crash might need to have one of his feet amputated as he recovers from the deadly collision.
Family friend Charlie Bakhos said the grade 5 student had suffered a “significant setback” and might need to have his right foot amputated after a surgical operation could not be completed.
“[His father Simon] will have to face Nicholas in the coming days to let him know his mum been taken to heaven and also let him know that he may be losing a foot, which will be a major blow to [Nicholas’s] mental state of mind,” Bakhos wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.The Bethany Catholic Primary School student remains in a critical but stable condition in Queensland Children’s Hospital after waking from a coma last week.
The news came days after hundreds of mourners paid tribute to his mother at a funeral service at Saint John the Beloved at Mount Druitt, in Sydney’s west.The results of a probe into the collision by the Air Transport Safety Bureau are not expected until at least September 2024.
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