Joanna Bringham wants to raise awareness of bike safety
Bringham said “🚲Please please make your child wear a helmet. 🚲
This week we have been living in a nightmare. Jules went out for 10 minutes after tea on his bike and bumped into friends where they were all trying jumps. Not long after this I had a bang at the door and our nightmare started.
Jules got rushed to hospital where staff looked after him brilliantly. He spent hours bringing up blood so took him for a ct scan. This showed up he had several complex fractures in his orbit and were transferring him York. All day jules was having different check ups , But by the evening we discovered that jules also had a fractured skull and developed a bleed on the brain which meant we had another ambulance trip to Leeds.
Staff at Leeds we’re amazing with us we were under several drs who looked after different areas that jules had damaged and had surgery to clean up his face.
While we were in Leeds the nursing staff told us that fractured skulls from wearing no helmet was common in the hospital. Jules fell from his eye down so would have suffered either way but who no’s how different this would have been if I had made him go out in his.
We still have a long few weeks ahead of us but jules is a fighter and will do it with a smile on his face.
Please please please make sure your child wears a helmet at all times when going out on a bike. No mum or dad wants to go through what we went through. Let’s make it cool to wear a helmet.
