Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 6 weeks ago
A teenager has described how a serious head injury sustained while on a football holiday in Ibiza left him on a stroke ward for four months.Daniel Hurst went on an annual football trip to the popular holiday destination in May last year with his teammates from Yateley United Football Club.But the trip ended in catastrophe after Mr Hurst, who was 19 at the time, suffered such a horrific head injury that medics did not believe he would survive.
Transcript
00:00Music
00:24Am I going to be able to play football again and even run?
00:28I think for me the worst stage out of all of it was when I arrived to the hospital first
00:37in New Yorker
00:38and the two surgeons took me into the room and explained his injuries
00:41and I had a panic attack and it was horrendous because it was a very severe head injury
00:50During the whole time I was in I was thinking what is this for the rest of my life
00:54I mean one moment I remember I'm running the London Marathon and now I can't even walk
01:00so it's kind of like what is happening to my future
01:03then I just remember putting on myself that I can do this and I have to just keep moving
01:08and keep positive about things
01:11so I just kept trying to move forward every day
01:14I mean it's very good
01:17it's nice to have a lot of things back that I thought a part of me would have thought I
01:21lost
01:21that I would never get this again
01:23but then again it's like you've just got to keep pushing
01:27like just if you get an accident or something happens to anyone who's out there in a hostel
01:32or even just a bit down it's not the end of your story
01:35you've just got to keep going forward
01:37I know it's hard things to say until coming from me
01:40but just keep moving forward and your life isn't done
01:44it's still there and you can get through these things and just keep going
Comments

Recommended