Woman trapped in Thailand after serious spinal injury on last day of holiday
Daily Mirror · Neil Shaw ·
Friends and family are trying to get her home before Christmas
Friends and family are trying to get her home before Christmas
A tourist has broken four vertebrae in a freak boat accident in Thailand just one day before she was due to fly home. Abbie Fleming suffered a serious spinal injury while travelling on a ferry with her boyfriend, Andrew.
The beautician, from Clogheen, County Tipperary, required emergency spinal fixation and fusion surgery, during which her damaged vertebrae were reconstructed using metalwork. Abbie remains under medical care abroad and faces a lengthy period of recovery and rehabilitation before she will be fit to travel.
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