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I believe he is in an induced coma. My thoughts to him and his family.
The more I know the less I understand.
I hope he pulls through with no serious damage remaining. It must be incredibly tough for his family and friends to experience such moments.
All the best to him and a speedy recovery!Fingers crossed he can pull through this – thoughts firmly with his family.
This is something very very serious from what I understand. Don’t know what to say…..
I just keep hoping that it isn’t as bad as it sounds. That the hospital are just being ultra cautious. I was think back to Isabel Thompsett, my favourite jockey from a few years back, and how she has recovered from horrendous injuries. And I also keep thinking of seeing Graham at Kelso when he’d ridden a horse that had placed in one of the races and how concerned he was that she’d got a slight cut on her leg.
It is a fine line we tread in life and I am willing a positive outcome.
The more I know the less I understand.
The fact that it was an incident upon leaving the starting stalls and not a horse coming down whilst actually galloping brings home the point of just how dangerous the sport really is and how we can take things for granted i.e. something as seemingly simply as a horse and jockey leaving the starting stalls….which is done (individually) hundreds and (collectively) thousands of times a year.
Just desperately hoping that this is not going to end up as a worse case scenario injury that will have life changing consequences for him and (by extension) his family – even if it is as bad as a career ending issue, as long as he is (literally) able to walk away from it that will be a blessed relief all around.
Of course 1000% hoping that it is just an abundance of caution shown on the medical side and that a full recovery will be made by a man who has already left a lasting impact on the sport, uniquely enough under both codes (the only jockey in the sport to win the Grand National and Ascot Gold Cup).
Sounds extremely serious – it illustrates how things can change in a heartbeat, especially where horses are involved.
Best wishes to him for a swift recovery and to his family.
Cormack
I’m no doctor and there is no need to speculate, but this is very serious imo:
Tracheostomy is a procedure to help air and oxygen reach the lungs by creating an opening into the trachea (windpipe) from outside the neck. A person with a tracheostomy breathes through a tracheostomy tube inserted in the opening.
One step at a time – very good news that he has come through the surgery well but the wording of the statement does make you wonder what they are potentially leaving out of the update.
Just a general overview of reading up about unstable cervical spine fractures brings it home rather starkly just how deeply serious a medical issue it is and how extremely careful they have to be in treating it going forward.
Continued best wishes to Graham Lee and his family and fingers crossed he gets through whatever the next stage of his treatment/recovery is in the absolute best case scenario.
I wasn’t going to give money to the just giving appeal because I always buy things from the IJF anyway but his daughter says she’s reading out all the messages to him. I think it’s really important for him to know how much we all want him to get better.
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