A family has been left heartbroken after a 'beautiful' young mum tragically died.
11.02.2024 - 20:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A dad has been left paralysed from the waist down after a horror motorbike accident on the last day of a dream holiday to Thailand. Lee Francis and wife Clare were in the country visiting his daughter Katie when they came off the bike and crashed into a barrier on January 19.
Clare escaped with a concussion and cuts on her face and body but Lee’s injuries included broken ribs, a fractured spine in three places and severe contusions to the lungs. He was rushed to hospital and placed on a ventilator before undergoing surgery in a bid to help him keep the use of his legs.
The surgery was a success but Lee, 54, was later told he would never walk again. The dad-of-two, from Church Village in the Rhondda Cynon Taf area of Wales, then had to endure a traumatic 18-hour flight home on a stretcher.
Lee, who is now being treated at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, told Wales Online: “I still can’t get my head around it. It has hit me for six. Our life is going to totally change and I’m just a bit worried about the future.
"I had a wonderful holiday with my daughter. This happened on our last day. My helmet smashed totally in half and I think if I didn’t wear it I wouldn’t be here today.”
He added: “It’s lovely to get back to Wales. It was quite traumatising being in hospital in Thailand. I was in a lot of excruciating pain, especially the first hospital I was in, and I had a bit of trauma coming home on the plane.
“I’ve had a lot of tests and they have continued to unfortunately give me the diagnosis that I couldn’t walk again. It’s going to be a bit of a long process and it’s devastating news as you can imagine.”
And he said he is grateful he took out proper travel insurance. “I went through it with my daughter and I was
A family has been left heartbroken after a 'beautiful' young mum tragically died.
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