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Fundraiser set up to fly home Stockport dad who fell from 30ft balcony on holiday
His partner and two young children are desperate for him to be flown home
A fundraiser has been set up to fly home a dad from Stockport after he fell from a 30ft balcony while on holiday.
Dan Boyle, 31, tumbled from the third-floor balcony while suffering from ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’, his girlfriend claims.
The father-of-two was enjoying a holiday in Lanzarote with his girlfriend Ashleigh Lomas, 30, along with Ashleigh’s sister Jess and her boyfriend Kyle when he had the accident on the first night.
He was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker and was taken to hospital on the Spanish island, where doctors allegedly discovered Dan had undiagnosed pneumonia.
They believe his lungs had filled with fluid from the chest infection which caused his lungs to collapse and his heart stop beating before he fell over the side of the balcony wall.
Dan, an engineer, suffered a fractured skull, a fractured breast bone, a torn kidney and broke his ribs in the horrific fall.
He was flown to a hospital in Gran Canaria where he underwent an emergency operation to remove pressure from his brain, have surgery on his kidney and was put in an induced coma.
Doctors have told Ashleigh they think Dan will have ‘really bad’ damage to his brain, but they know the full extent until he is fully awake, she said.
Dan is now stable enough to come home but will need to fly on a medical flight — costing around £35,000 — which family and friends are desperately trying to raise money for so that his partner and two children can be by his side.
The couple took out holiday insurance which is enough to cover hospital bills but won’t be enough to cover the flight home so that Dan can receive the care that he needs with his loved ones around him.
Ashleigh, who works as a barmaid, says she wants Dan to come home to their two children, eight-year-old Daisy and three-year-old Daniel, as soon as possible.
She said: “It would mean everything for him to come home, everything would be so much easier for everybody. He will be able to be around people who he knows and get the care that he needs.”
You can donate to the Go Fund Me here.