This programme contains scenes of medical care and injury
PHONE RINGS
Queen's ED Resus.
Oh, God.
ED Resus, code alpha.
Stepped out in front of a tram. Fractured limb.
13-year-old impaled on a fence.
That's going to be a red.
Piece of machinery has hit him in the face.
There's absolutely no space.
No pulse. Cardiac arrest.
That's it.
Can we have another pulse check please?
Yeah, I've got a pulse.
You guys are awesome.
It's all go, ain't it?
Hello, sir. Welcome to Queens.
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham...
Eh up, duck. I've chopped me fingers off.
..one of the busiest A&E departments in Europe...
Can we have some help?
..now under more pressure than ever.
Patients from last night are still here.
The last few years have definitely been a lot tougher.
Very sorry about the wait. It's OK!
We just feel like we're battling
every day, but we have to keep going.
You're in the right place with the right people. Thank you.
A place where life...
Huh-huh-huh!
Are you all right? Hi.
..love...
I just wanted you.
..and loss...
He's going to go to intensive care.
..unfold every single day.
Your mum is here.
We can't let the bad times destroy people.
Whatever happens, you've got to fight.
It's humanity that gets people through - it's the love.
She's here. All right, love. Hi, love.
I think we sometimes take the people we love for granted,
and we think they're going to be there forever.
But we need to hold on to those connections,
because you don't know when they're not going to be there any more.
I love you.
Probably don't say it as much as I should.
CROWD SINGING
All around the ground, it's a sea of red and white.
The crowd know. They know how massive today is.
Football definitely unites people.
It unites us as a city.
When Nottingham Forest got back into the Premier League,
I cried after, it was so emotional.
Forest being promoted certainly had benefits for the city.
The city centre seems a lot more lively.
Certainly so does A&E on match days.
Nottingham people do live and breathe the game.
You're going to be stuck in here while I'm watching Forest.
You would die!
Could be in head blocks after an RTC
and we're talking about what the scores were.
Stevie Cooper!
SHE LAUGHS
Forest are fighting for Premier League survival.
The Reds need to beat Arsenal this afternoon to be safe.
They have to stay up - imagine they didn't stay up,
how devastating would that be? It would be a shame. It would be.
I think it's so important for everyone to be
a part of something.
Everyone needs somewhere to belong.
PHONE RINGS
Resus, Queen's?
Mm-hm.
OK. OK.
What's your ETA?
Ten minutes.
A 36-year-old man is being rushed
to Queen's Medical Centre after crashing his motorbike into
a car at speed.
Amber trauma, 30-year-old who off'd his bike.
Dr Amie is on duty in Resus.
Being a motorcyclist, you can have
significant injuries anywhere.
You're not protected against such a high impact.
I need Resus 1 free.
You worry about head injury,
neck injury, any injury to their limbs.
Open fracture right tib-fib.
Fracture left femur and right wrist.
We see quite a lot
of motorcyclists unfortunately not survive.
The man's partner was at
the Nottingham Forest match when the incident happened.
I didn't know he'd gone out on the bike that day.
It came as a bit of a shock.
I was at the City Ground with my dad.
It was quite a nerve-racking game, knowing that this could relegate us,
and that was when we got the call.
My dad came off the phone
and said that there had been an accident.
I knew that it must have been his motorbike.
I felt sick.
He's had seizures in the past.
Rushing through our mind at that point was, had he banged his head?
Could he have done further damage to his brain?
It was really weird -
there was all this cheering around me,
but inside I kept thinking, "He's dying".
On three - one, two, three.
This is Andy.
He is 36 years old and was riding his motorcycle.
Coming out of a junction, was knocked off by
a car travelling at about 30mph.
He has got a fractured right wrist, fractured left femur, we think,
and an open tibia fracture.
The wound is very, very small.
OK.
Hi, Andy, my name's Amie,
have got any pain anywhere in your chest or your tummy?
No, no.
Any pain, pain at the top?
Yeah, yeah. OK.
So, left femoral tenderness.
Your femur is the longest bone in your body.
Because of all of the big blood vessels,
you can lose a significant amount of blood from a broken femur.
Can we order a CT trauma on this guy? Yeah.
And sometimes you can bleed there without much evidence that you've
actually lost a lot of blood.
You need to identify that as soon as you can,
otherwise it can be fatal.
So we'll get you some pain relief, OK? OK.
We'll take you round for a CT scan, all right?
I think I've always felt lucky to have such a close family,
and Andy means the world to me and the kids.
We've been together now 17 years, and you know
it was really scary.
It just makes you realise how quickly that can change.
Trauma patient.
Going for scan. Going for CT, then X-rays.
36-year-old Andy is in Resus,
after sustaining multiple injuries in a motorbike crash.
Just setting up to go and get you for a scan and stuff. Oh, OK, yeah.
Doctors are concerned he may have significant fractures
to his arm and legs, and serious internal bleeding.
Hello.
Most of your body and your head. OK.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
The first thing I remember about Andy was just his kindness.
So, Andy, you don't need to do anything -
we're going to do all the moving of you.
I met Andy at work.
We worked at a wine factory.
I was 23, and he was 20.
Ready, steady, slide.
He did make me laugh, we had a good time,
but he was quite shy.
He sent me a message saying that he liked somebody
and he didn't what to do, and I said to him,
"Well, just tell them", you know, "Why wouldn't you just tell them?"
And then that's when he messaged me and said,
"Well, what if it, was you?"
Is that to stop me flying away?
Yeah.
I wasn't looking for a relationship I guess at the time.
I had two boys from
a previous relationship who were around two and three,
at that time.
He wasn't at all fazed by the fact that I had the children.
I could this really caring side to him.
Just watching him be with them, just made me love him even more.
Keep very still there now.
Quite quickly, he just stepped into the role of being a dad.
He'd be encouraging them, you know, climbing up rocks,
climbing trees, always just making it fun for them.
It just felt right that we wanted to live together
and live as a family.
And it just became the four of us.
Right, we've done the first two scans, OK?
OK, yeah. And now we have to do a scan of your body.
And then made it bigger, when we had our daughter.
I remember him cradling her after she was born,
and just looking at her, just I remember him saying,
"Look at her tiny fingers and her tiny toes!"
And he was just over the moon.
For us, that was our family complete,
and we were just looking forward to the future
and what they would hold for us all.
But in 2018, we found out Andy had
a problem in his brain.
It changed everything.
Cavernoma is
an abnormal cluster of small blood vessels
that form in the brain.
The blood vessel walls are thinner.
Following a head injury,
there is an increased risk that they could have ruptured and bled.
It's time critical to identify bleeds within the brain.
Oh.
It could be fatal.
Forest it is who are going to kick us off.
Listen to this already!
The players can barely hear the whistle.
I reckon I'm not going to be at the game.
We still haven't been called
and it's been like 21 million hours.
I don't want to hit your foot.
You'll have to kind of spin yourself round.
The X-ray was really painful.
He made me put my arms out like - not full Titanic.
Kate Winslet? Did he stand behind you like Leo?
Sadly not.
Adrian.
Are you all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, because you wouldn't be here, would you? Yeah.
Come through. Could have been way worse, I tell you that? Aw.
We're just going to go in here. Do you want to come and take a seat?
25-year-old Adrian has come to A&E
after being seriously injured in Nottingham City Centre.
Tell me why you've come here today.
I was on my way to work,
and I've seen three guys kicking this other guy.
And I told them to stop, they wouldn't stop...
Yeah. ..so I had to intervene.
And I was thinking, "He's not going to make it out of that alive."
They were going to kill him.
Something just clicked in my mind. I had to stop it.
From there, it just went south.
I got punched in the face.
And was it just fists to the face?
Did they kick you at all in the face?
Yeah, I got to the ground. That's when they kicked.
OK.
I pushed one of the guys away.
He came and he grabbed my legs underneath,
and that's when they put me down to the ground.
They used everything they could, even bite me.
Oh, gosh, it must have been really scary. Yeah.
Luckily, my friend came, and he chased them,
and he was on the phone to the police...
Yeah. ..and they got all three of them.
I need to have a really good look at you, is that OK? Yeah.
I'm just going to grab some gloves.
Yeah.
The paramedics said I saved his life.
Right, really relax for me.
Tell me if you've got any pain anywhere that I'm pressing at all.
There's a bit of swelling there, but it's not...
It's not... They're not major.
Yeah, it's not a boggy swelling. It's nice and firm.
It's, yeah. No, that's fine.
Yeah. So just look up for me again.
In my family, it was a lot of struggles,
but love is what kept us going, you know?
Any pain at all? Right there, yeah.
OK.
I've lived in England 15 years.
I was ten when we came to England.
Any pain around here at all? No?
No.
As a child, it's really scary to just move from your country to
a different country.
I couldn't speak English.
But my family had to make a change.
Can you lie down for me, then?
Yeah.
Yeah, with your back that way.
Back that way? Yeah.
No, the other way, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lovely. Right.
Look at your arm.
I was born in Romania.
A small town called Medias.
So this is where...? And they definitely bit you here, yeah?
OK.
There was this lake.
As a child, my father would take me fishing every day,
and I used to love it.
What my dad caught,
we used to take it home and cook it.
But we ate them because we had to.
Any pain at all anywhere? No.
All the ribs OK? Yeah.
Tummy? All right.
Pop your arms back in there again.
Right, let's look at these knees.
We had a small house, but the house had a lot of mould,
and the rent was quite expensive.
Can you lift this leg up?
Lovely.
The other.
My mum went to England to just get a better job
and trying to support us financially.
I remember we had phone calls.
There was so much crying involved every time.
We really missed her a lot.
So we'll send you for a quick X-ray.
I don't think it's going to be broken, but just to make sure. Yeah.
I'll let you get changed, then I'll come back in, all right?
Yeah.
Have you ever played Duck, Duck, Goose?
If I say no, what would you say?
I'll teach you.
You'll teach me Duck, Duck, Goose.
And you're in Nottingham, so it's Duckie.
It's Duckie. Duckie, Duckie Goose.
Duck, Duck.
Duckie.
PHONE RINGS
Hello, Resus?
Oh, no! OK.
How long will you be?
That's perfect. Thank you so much. See you then.
Thanks. Bye-bye.
What have we got coming in?
So he's a builder and he's fallen from the rooftop.
A 27-year-old man is being rushed
to Queen's Medical Centre after falling 12ft off a roof.
He's got an abrasion to his head.
GSUS of 14.
ETA, 15 minutes. 15 minutes.
The man's mum and dad were at home when the accident happened.
I knew he was working on a roof in Nottingham.
His dad took this call from one of his colleagues.
I just knew something bad had happened.
I wanted to rip the phone out of his hand and ask,
"Well, how far has he fell?"
Can I have everyone's attention?
Priority, if they're stable enough,
is going to be get them to CT as quickly as possible.
It hit me what sort of damage that could do.
You just fear the worst.
They will need IV access.
Registrar Hannah is on duty in Resus.
12ft is quite a significant fall.
They could have broken their neck
or any of the other bones in their spine.
They could have a significant head injury.
Here he is. Let's go.
They could have done some serious damage.
Bay three, please.
Can we get him over and then do handover?
My name's Holly. I'm one of the nurses.
There's a lot of people going to be around you now,
and we're all going to be talking about you for a minute, OK?
Yeah, no worries.
Connor was working on top of a high roof.
He stepped on one of the beams, which was only thin,
and he's fallen through the ceiling level that's not there
and then onto the floor headfirst.
Lost consciousness for five minutes.
Still a little bit confused.
Couldn't recall things like where he lived.
He is complaining of acute head pain.
No vomiting? No.
He has felt sick. That's why we gave him Ondansetron.
Thank you. OK. Thank you.
Hello. Hi, are you all right?
Hi, yeah. My name's Hannah. I'm one of the doctors.
Got any pain anywhere at the moment?
Can you remember what happened?
OK, so just look straight ahead for me.
Patients that have got memory loss are patients that we want to keep
a close eye on.
It might be because they've got a brain injury.
Book a CT head and neck for this patient, please. On it.
Query traumatic injury.
Are you all right? I'm going to throw up.
He's going to throw up.
I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. No, no, no.
Ready, steady, roll.
If a patient's vomiting after a head injury,
that could be a sign that they've got raised pressure from inside
the brain.
These are all signs that they might have had some bleeding on the brain.
Are you OK?
No?
That could be life-threatening.
Is it stuck?
HE COUGHS
I was scared. Really scared.
Are you OK? Yeah.
Was he going to come through it?
Is it going to change him forever?
Put your head down. Pop your head down and just relax.
He might not be the same person.
He might not be my boy.
He fell on a building site through a roof.
He can remember starting to fall,
and then he's got no memory of what happened afterwards.
Right, we're going to go and get you scanned then, all right, sweetheart?
Yeah.
27-year-old Connor is being taken for an urgent CT scan.
Is it literally just the back of your head that's hurting?
Yeah, pretty much.
Nowhere else? My ears are ringing as well.
Doctors are concerned he may have sustained a traumatic brain injury.
Hello, there. Hiya, mate, you all right?
Just stay nice and still for us, all right?
Let us do all the work.
Connor was always the joker.
We always used to call him the court jester.
Always daft, that's the thing.
He's always daft.
He's the one who lightens everything up.
Ready, steady, roll.
Ready, steady, back.
Connor was born on the 29th of February.
He's a Leap Year baby.
He was beautiful.
This is a quick scan of your head and neck.
Yeah.
There's no better feeling than having them in your arms
and you know that they've been safely born into the world,
and that's how you want to keep them.
He would often cry in the night,
and I think that's cos he wasn't with anybody.
One night, went in
and gave him this blue teddy with a little ribbon around his neck,
and he seemed to attach himself to that, and that was it.
My mum stitched that head back on that teddy
I don't know how many times when he was little
cos he used to cuddle it that much.
Breathe in and hold your breath.
He always wanted to be in the thick of something that was going on.
If it was interesting, noisy, messy, then he was there.
He used to say, when he grew up,
he wanted to be a policeman at one time.
And then he wanted to run dog kennels.
Or a footballer, of course,
cos he absolutely loved his football
and played semi-pro at Arnold Town
as their goalkeeper until,
unfortunately, he had a wrist injury.
OK there?
Yeah. It's all done.
I didn't encourage him to work for us.
Ready, steady, slide.
But he ended up working for the family business,
which is a construction firm.
Me and Connor's dad, Adie, are both directors,
and I guess my reservations were from when Adie worked
for his dad, you know, um,
and I didn't want that to ever go the same way.
There was always lots of arguments and pressure.
It is always tough, I think, when you work for your family.
Is there anyone you need to phone? Have you phoned them?
Um, I probably need to phone my dad back.
Would work have rung him?
He is work. Oh, he is work.
He is, he is the boss.
Connor, yes. Has he got anything on his head?
Yeah.
Doctors now have Connor's initial scan results.
Occipital fracture, neurosurgical review.
OK.
Hi, is that neurosurgical reg?
Hi, it's Hannah, one of the doctors calling from ED Resus.
I'm just calling to let you know about an urgent referral, please.
There's a 27-year-old with traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage, um
multiple haemorrhagic contusions and an occipital fracture.
A subarachnoid haemorrhage comes from
a specific area lower down in the brain.
It can cause significant bleeding.
I think I'm going to throw up again.
Can we have some log roll in two?
If you then start bleeding around the brain,
there's nowhere for that blood to go,
so it starts to increase the pressure.
It can be really serious
because it can then start to compress the brain...
Can someone hold this as well?
..and that could cause permanent damage.
I'm a Leicester fan.
We're getting relegated this season, and we hate Forest.
In my bathroom, I can hear them cheering.
I'm that close to the stadium.
I went for a wee before I came to work,
and they were all screaming and shouting.
And I was like, "I'm not even going to look cos I'm so annoyed.
"They sound so happy."
Yeah, it was 1-0. Oh, was it? They're safe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice.
So that means Forest stay up.
Oh, that's incredible!
Elated. Is that the right word? Elated.
Andy's had an accident on his motorbike.
Somebody just pulled out of a side road on to him.
Andy is awaiting scan results after he came off his motorbike at speed.
Doctors are concerned about an abnormality on his brain,
as well as serious fractures to his femur and wrist.
I will let you know once I know any more.
We're just waiting for him to come back from X-ray.
Andy's partner and her dad are in the family room.
I'm Aimee, I'm one of the doctors.
So it looks like he's got some bony injuries from legs
and arms, but we don't know, because of these injuries,
we can't say if there's anything else going on,
because these could distract from elsewhere, OK?
Yeah. We're just worried about his head's OK.
So he's got a cavernoma?
Yeah. So once we've got a proper update,
we will give you an answer.
It shouldn't be too much longer, all right?
Were you guys at the game?
Yeah. Yes, of course...
Awesome result, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
All right, Andy. We've got your... Oh, hello.
What the hell have you been doing?
Eh, it's not my fault.
I know, I've heard.
Are you all right? Mm.
They looked at your CT and saw your cavernoma.
Andrew, we're going to take you off this hard board, OK?
Back in August 2018,
Andy had taken our oldest son to watch a Forest game
at the City Ground.
Right, I'm just going to come under
here, cos that's not really how I'd like.
He came home, and he was talking to me about the game,
and he went to bed. Everything seemed normal.
Well done.
In the early hours of the morning,
I heard this really strange noise.
I looked over to Andy and something didn't look right.
He was just lying there, he was rigid, he was pale,
he was frothing at the mouth, but he wasn't breathing.
Now we'll do your left side.
That might be a bit sore, all right?
Mm. Yeah.
And I remember screaming his name,
because I remember it woke the children.
So I shouted to the boys, "Take your sister downstairs,"
cos I didn't know what was happening.
Then he started to seize.
The seizure felt like it lasted forever.
It was awful.
I just kept thinking, He's not breathing, you know, he's dead.
And then all of a sudden, the seizure stopped
and he took in a huge gulp of breath.
The paramedics came and they took him into hospital.
They took him in to do some tests,
and that was when they found he had a cavernoma in his brain.
And the seizure was caused by a bleed.
It was a shock.
He was so young, he was 32.
He wasn't unhealthy, he'd not been sick.
They don't know whether he had the cavernoma prior
to that, they don't know if he was born with it,
but something caused it to bleed that night.
The doctors said that they couldn't operate,
it would be dangerous, but that he would
need to take medication for the rest of his life.
Andrew, you take lamotrigine, don't you?
Yeah. What dose do you take, and what time do you take it?
150mg, twice a day. So have you missed the evening one?
I probably would have taken it two hours ago, yeah.
OK, we'll get that.
Took me quite a while to sleep properly again.
I was, like, listening out for him,
listening out for any noise that he might make.
Because we didn't know if it would happen again,
and we didn't know how it would impact him in the future.
A lot changed for us.
We'll just wait for the X-ray to come up on our screen, OK,
and then we'll come back and give you an update.
They can prescribe you something stronger...
OK. ..once the alcohol's worn off.
THEY LAUGH
We only had a bottomless brunch.
I don't know what you're on about.
Well, I know how much you can drink at bottomless brunch.
THEY LAUGH
I've been there myself.
I might just push you, Kieran, and let go.
Vroom!
Liam, Byron and Josh are still in the waiting area...
THEY LAUGH
..and have been for the past six hours.
Six? I said six.
You said four. I said...did I say six?
He said six. I'm losing the plot, then, my head's hurting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
Adrian is having an X-ray
of his face after he was injured breaking up
a fight in Nottingham City Centre.
You can leave your things over that chair, all right?
You can put it on the top of that. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Oh, sorry. That's OK. So, it's just that side of your face, right?
Yeah. OK. So if you just take a seat on here.
So this chair will move and I need to move you close to there. Yeah.
So if you just take a seat now. All right.
My mum was working in England, and back in Romania,
I lived with my father and my younger sister.
So if you just lift your chin over there now. Yeah.
We missed her a lot, and she really missed us,
but she was crying like she wants her kids.
That's right. Don't move now, OK?
So my father bought some plane tickets.
That was the first time for all of us flying.
I remember it was scary, and my father was very scared as well,
he was the most scared out of all of us.
But for me it was like a big roller-coaster.
HE CHUCKLES
OK, just keep that position for me now, all right? Yeah.
We flew into Luton,
and when I first saw my mum,
I was ecstatic, I was happy
I was finally meeting my mum after a long, long, long time.
Keep your chin there. I'm going to slide it down your chin.
Yeah, that's it.
It was just like a big reunion. It was good, it was good.
Just one more, all right? Yeah.
It was difficult at the beginning.
When I started my first school,
it was a bit scary, yeah.
OK. It's all done. Yeah.
All the kids will try to bully you or will
try to push you around.
It felt like I was on
fight-or-flight at all times at the beginning.
So you just need to go back to A&E.
They will call you back with the results, OK? Yeah. OK, that's
great. Cheers, guys. All right, all the best. Safe home, bye-bye.
Thank you, bye-bye.
I had to be brave.
He's a 27-year-old, he fell from a roof,
he's had vomiting, head pain, some memory loss,
and he's on and off a little bit confused.
He's got a traumatic subarach, multiple brain contusions.
Doctors are concerned
Connor's brain could be under pressure from internal bleeding.
Right, Connor. Yeah.
Plan is we're going to get you onto this other bed,
cos we want to slightly tilt you.
Yeah. He's got blood in his head,
so it's to try and, like, stop the pressure with gravity.
So to do that, we're going to do the roll.
So it's going to be hands all over your body.
All we need you to do is stay completely still,
especially your head, which I'm going to have hold of.
Yeah. Is that OK? Yeah, OK. Cool.
Your dad's on his way up as well, OK? OK. All right.
Will you come and remove the block and let me get in place?
Right, ready? Yeah.
This one first.
Before Connor worked for the family business,
his dad and grandad worked together.
I'll just get all that off.
They'd had their own business.
Yeah, for them it was quite hard, really.
Are you OK? Are you all right? I think so.
Every time he wanted to go away or do something for
the day, just do normal things,
I guess, as a family, you know, it was quite hard.
And ready, steady, back.
The anxiety of having to ask his dad for
the time off depended on where they were within the job
and things like that, so there was
always a lot of pressure around that.
And slide. Ready, steady, slide.
Their relationship broke down over many years,
really, I guess, working for him,
and then things are said,
and it makes it difficult then to come back from that.
You're all right.
Yeah, there was a massive fallout in the end.
The family just disintegrated, really.
Emotions are a big thing, aren't they,
you know, with families, and families running businesses,
I think. I didn't want it to repeat itself,
and I was not prepared to let that happen to Connor.
Doctors now have Connor's full CT report.
Hi, Connor. Yeah. The result's back from your scan.
It shows that you've got a fracture in
the base of your skull at the back.
I know that's where you've been getting a lot of pain.
It also shows a small amount of bleeding,
so we do need to admit you to a neurosurgical ward.
If anything was to get worse,
they're the team that would be intervening.
Come on in, take a seat.
Emergency nurse practitioner
Emily has the results of Adrian's X-rays,
after he was injured breaking up a fight in the city centre.
So this is where you're tender around here.
Yeah. And kind of just underneath
your eye, we can't see anything broken. It all looks OK. Yeah.
There's just a different view here.
We're going to give your wounds a really good clean.
So, here, above your lip,
they're going to give your arm a good clean, and your knees as
well, cos they're quite dirty. Yeah. Right, let's take you
across the way.
Are you ready, Charlotte?
My father and my mother,
they did everything to just feed us and keep us
and get us an education and trying to live a good life.
Like, foam-type stuff. Mm-hm.
And as time passes, as we grow older,
things were going better for us.
No, it doesn't need stitches,
it just needs a bit of glue. Yeah, just a bit of glue.
I started work, started contributing for my family.
This is going to be awkward
cos I am left-handed, all right? Mm-hm.
My next plan is I want to study cyber security at uni.
Or I might become a police officer, you know.
HE LAUGHS
My boss is going to be surprised when he's going to hear this story.
Like, why I wasn't in.
Nottingham does feel like home.
I know England more than I know Romania.
It's a good place to live. We're living a good life.
Are you happy for him to go?
Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much, guys.
I'll take you through to see him.
Connor's dad has arrived in Resus.
Right.
Ey up. Ey up, dude, all right?
I have A fractured skull.
I know, I've heard. Did it happen quick?
Yeah. It snapped and I fell straight through.
Nothing I could have done.
How are you feeling yourself - groggy?
Shit. My head's killing me.
I said a few times to Connor's dad, "Sort it out,
"try and make up with your dad," but he didn't do that,
and then we got a phone call, Connor's grandad had died.
It was hard to process. Yeah, it's tough.
Your mum's on her way as well. Oh, OK. They said that I might have
to stay here, depending on how bad it is.
You will have to stay here, they're trying to find you a ward, yeah.
But they're just monitoring you now.
I've had many a conversation with Connor saying,
"I don't really want you to do this,
"but if you want to do this, then that's your choice,
"but these are the hard realities of it,
"that it's tough working for your dad."
Connor's dad, he's seen the ways that you don't
want to sort of take it, do you know what I mean?
It's, like, you learn from that, I guess.
You can tell that he trusts Connor.
He's quite happy to leave him on the jobs,
and he'll always recommend him, you know.
Adi's dad wouldn't have done that.
So you're going to go round
to another area while you wait for your bed up on the ward.
It's just really, really important
that we do stick together as a family,
cos things can change so quickly.
Connor is being taken to the neurosurgical ward,
where specialists will monitor the bleed on his brain.
Your helmet, though, doesn't look bad. No.
You have to have a new helmet, don't you,
once you've been in a crash, don't you? You've got to bin it.
He's not going back on a bike, end of story,
so you won't need a new helmet, will you, babe?
Dr Amie now has Andy's full CT results.
The CT head has been reported. No intracranial injuries,
stable intracranial left anterolateral temporal lobe
cavernoma. So, head's fine. Ah, here we go.
X-rays. Do you want to see the X-rays?
So, right wrist.
Shattered.
Shattered very well.
Yeah, it's totally gone.
Mm. Two or three places, OK, so it's gone there.
Femur. Oh, dear, that's going to need...
Oh, dear.
Scan results show there is no bleeding in Andy's brain...
That needs... It's kind of come out, hasn't it?
..but he has sustained serious fractures to his wrist and femur.
If someone has a displaced broken femur,
priority is to stabilise the bone.
We'd need to put the leg in traction to then realign
the bones together, but that patient is going to need
surgical management to fix the broken bone.
It's annoying, innit? Cos you go through all the ifs and buts
and "what if I'd done this somewhat differently?
"Then I wouldn't have been there at that second," and... Yeah.
It can be quite disheartening, knowing that the patient's
got a long way to recovery and this could have
a significant impact on their family life.
It's going to be tough for them.
Oh, that is such a relief.
Do you want some more? Yeah, please.
But getting it right in the emergency department
is the first step.
I realised this when I had my seizure, didn't I?
When, like, so many other people are dependent on you
to be able to actually get up and do stuff... Yeah.
..but you can't.
After when he found he had a cavernoma,
he did have three further seizures.
He had one at home when he was cooking tea,
and he just looked at me, and he wasn't there.
He just sat down on the kitchen floor and he just...
He wasn't responsive.
And they lasted, like, a couple of minutes.
I wouldn't let him stay on his own. I was...worried.
If he had been on his own, what would have happened?
Hello, young man.
You have quite a nasty break in the bone of your right wrist
and further up the arm, so I need to pop that in
a plaster for stabilising... Okey dokey, yeah. Yeah.
..but it will need an operation. Yeah.
Also, your left femur's broken, so we're going to put you into
a straight leg traction to make it less painful
while you await your operation for that. Mm-hm. OK?
Have you got your phone?
Yeah. You've got your phone, so you'll let me know.
Let me know where you're going, yeah? Mm. All right.
Andy was concerned about the impact for us as a family,
you know, impact to his job.
Right, got it. I've got it.
It was really hard for him. People didn't help out.
You know, doing all the things that dads do.
Yeah. If you pop your finger on that bit, it makes it a bit stronger.
Argh! Yeah.
Until we knew Andy's medication stopped the seizures,
he couldn't drive. He couldn't do the boys' activities.
He couldn't be taking them to places...
..and we just had to adapt.
The fracture's all loose here, isn't it? It's all good.
Take nice deep breaths, mate, well done.
But over time, he seemed to settle.
Although it does impact him at times in terms
of his memory, particularly his short-term memory,
he got his driving licence back, and that meant that
he could go back to doing the things that he always
loved doing with the kids.
Does that feel a bit more comfortable with the
traction on there?
It does slightly, yes. Yeah? Thank you very much.
We could start carrying on with life as normal again.
It was a huge relief.
Family is everything, and we just work together.
How are you feeling?
I'm just tired. Oh.
I was going to say, so you love the Penthrox?
I feel lucky to live in Nottingham.
There just seems to be a togetherness within the city,
and it's the kind of city where people can
find their place to belong.
Andy is being taken to the orthopaedic ward,
where he will await emergency surgery.
Now better?
Much better, much better, much better now.
He thanked me and he was feeling better.
Do you have a phone number?
Maybe we come to chat sometime?
My hope is society, that we'll come together soon.
I hope you're OK, and take care of yourself.
What's your name? Adrian.
If there is no hope, you can create hope, you know?
You can always choose what's right.
When I got to the hospital, he was just really pale.
He then started the vomiting again.
That was the hardest bit - to watch him in those first few hours,
and waiting, really.
I think the main thing through this whole traumatic experience has been
how much you rely and love your family.
I'm really proud, working in the family business,
and being in a team with my dad is nice.
I'm looking forward to what the future holds.
Since I've had the operation, I do feel like I'm recovering well.
I've got a metal plate in my arm to fix three different breaks
and then a titanium rod down the inside of my femur.
I used to worry about the cavernoma quite a bit,
but, now it's under control,
I do view life a bit differently now, yeah.
I'm not a massive football fan,
but the rest of the family is, so I do plan to go to more matches.
Any opportunity to spend more time with them is great.
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