Miracle mum ready for Run after horrific smash injuries
A CRASH victim who could have died “five times over” will compete in today’s Great North Run. In just 20 months, Naomi Hall, 36, has recovered from horrific injuries and learned how to walk and talk again. This morning she will join thousands in Newcastle to run 13.1 miles, her first half marathon, in aid of her lifesavers. Mum Naomi’s life changed for ever on a January morning in 2017 when her orange Fiat collided with another car then hit two trees.
Smithereens
ous as mine. They are even writing a medical journal article about me. One consultant had to google what happened to my bowel as she’d never seen anything like it.
“One of my broken ribs punctured a hole in my chest and the bowel popped out.
“My left leg was broken so badly it was nearly amputated and my right arm was smashed to smithereens.”
Surgeons spent 10 hours working on her abdomen before putting her in an induced coma. She woke two weeks later unable to remember who she was.
She had to take a selfie on her phone because she did not know what she looked like.
She said: “I recognised my face but did not think it was weird I was in a neck brace with all these tubes and pipes coming out of me.” Naomi had to keep looking at her wrist bracelet to remember her name.her brain injury had also given her memory issues and changed her personality. She explained: “I used to be really placid and wouldn’t say boo to a goose, but now I’m really assertive and don’t seem to have any social filter.” Afghanistan veteran Naomi, who worked in logistic support and left the RAF in 2015, spent 10 weeks in hospital. She returned to her home in Eccles, Greater Manchester, and her daughter Natasha, now ten, in a wheelchair. In August last year she started training at her local gym. But even now, on bad days, she can forget how to walk properly and needs crutches. But the car leasing project manager is determined to finish today’s Simplyhealth Great North Run with personal trainer Sean Hegarty, and raise hundreds for the North West Air Ambulance.
I followed Jack into the field, where my patient was standing by herself next to the dry-stone wall.
She was a quiet cow and let me feel inside without any problem.
She had a condition called a uterine torsion – the womb was twisted, causing a blockage to the birth canal. It took a long time to reposition the calf, then it was born.
It was hard but pleasant work, bringing new life into the world while standing in a field in the middle of North Yorkshire.
The Yorkshire Vet is on Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 5.