David Harrison was left with life-changing injuries after a horrific e-bike accident
A man given just 24 hours to live after a horror e-bike accident has defied the odds after learning to walk and eat again.
Unable to even sit up, David was told he had fractured his spine in four places, broken his neck, had sustained a fractured skull, bleed on the brain, punctured lung, broken jaw and sustained a brachial-plexus injury, where nerves are torn away from the spinal cord. "The hospital said when I fell off I must have shot up into the air, hit the embankment and hit my head. They only gave me 24-48 hours to live and the air ambulance had to come for me.
"On the day it happened I had an emergency operation to rebuild my neck and spine with metal to stabilise it again." "I was in hospital for three more months and in that time I have worked on myself and learning how to do everything again. I was in bed for so long that even when they sat me up I felt faint," David said.
"On Facebook one day I saw a man with same injury as me who has designed this arm and now he's got a finished product that means he's able to go back out on his bike and do things he loves again. It gave me motivation. You can give up and sit down or stand up and face up to it."
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