Overview
- The 65-year-old has spent about a month at Dubrovnik General after an October 27 fall in Cavtat that caused a fractured skull, a broken C2 vertebra, nerve damage, and three brain bleeds.
- A British-crewed specialist ambulance is scheduled to leave the Dubrovnik hospital at 8am on Thursday, November 27, travel through multiple countries via the Channel Tunnel, and deliver him to Preston.
- Specialist nurses are flying to Croatia to meet him before departure and accompany the journey.
- A fundraiser gathered almost £14,000, supplemented by a reported £5,000 goodwill payment from Admiral after the insurer declined the claim citing non-disclosure.
- Family and clinicians report his C2 fracture and brain bleeds are stable, yet limited functional and cognitive progress requires an assessment and intensive rehabilitation in the UK.