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27.07.2015 - Stephen was sadly forced to make the choice to have his forearm amputated after the accident. This decision was made to prevent further infection and further damage to Stephen's body. Obviously this is a huge change for Stephen and the money raised via this GoFund page will go towards a new prosthetic arm for him and further rehab. Charlotte, Stephen and their family would like to thank everyone for their kind support and help over the last very difficult 10 weeks.
On the 16th May 2015, popular Irishman Stephen Thompson was involved in a serious accident at the International Northwest 200. The 39-year-old from Crumlin, Co Antrim was seriously injured in a crash where he was trying to avoid a fallen rider.
This is the story by his lovely partner Charlotte of the events since the accident:-
“Stephen sadly suffered a collapsed lung, bleeding on the brain, brachial plexus injury – which means at the minute we don’t know if he has severed the nerves or badly damaged them but he currently has no feeling or use of his left arm. He has broken the left forearm and shattered his hand – this was operated on the day of the accident and he was in theatre for 7 hours, they plated his forearm and now has a cage around the hand where they have pinned and wired it. The Royal Belfast Hospital then sent him to ICU following the operation, where he was put under heavy sedation until the Tuesday to help him with his lungs and trauma to the body.
On the Wednesday they transferred him to the fracture ward where he took a turn for the worse in the middle of the night and they had to call for the special care team to come and work and look after him as he was too weak to move back to ICU. The Thursday and Friday were extremely touch-and-go and the doctors were very worried about his and his deterioration, this put back his operation that was pencilled in for his leg on the Friday until he was strong enough to deal with the surgery.
The operation went ahead on his leg on Wednesday 27th May, he went to surgery at 10.15 and came back onto the ward that evening at 8pm. He had a pin put in his femur and they have put an external cage around the bottom part of his leg to fix the broken tibia and fibula. He can’t weight bare on the leg for at least 6 – 8 weeks and until we know his progress they haven’t give us a time on how long the cage will be on.
Stephen currently has no feeling from the shoulder down on his left arm so he is being transported via ambulance on Wednesday 3rd June for the day to see a top nerve specialist, he will go down to Dublin and back in the day. It looks like Stephen could be in hospital for a long stay until he has more movement in his arm and leg. The broken ribs are making progress which is also helping get his breathing more stable.”
As a friend of Charlotte, partner to Stephen I have set up this page to help him with his rehab and recovery which is set to be a very long road. Stephen is self-employed and currently remains in the Royal Belfast hospital, he was originally in Intensive Care/HDU for several days and the doctors anxiously waited for progress before they could perform another operation.
Stephen and Charlotte have two girls Fay and Libbie, they are asking for nothing from anyone except prayers and well wishes. I suggested to Charlotte to set up this GoFund page and if anyone wishes to help with a donation to help Stephen with his recovery it would be very much appreciated.
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/rider-stephen-thompson-spectator-critical-9271000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32771583
ALL the donations made on this page will go to Charlotte and Stephen to help with his recovery of his terrible injuries.
Here are some updates from Charlotte
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
21 May at 20:22 · Edited ·
Stephen through the night had a drop in his progress. HDU team have been on hand today and helping him they have stabilised him at the moment and we are praying his progress continue. We continue as a family to thank you all for continued support. Charlotte, Fay, a Libbie Sefty, Paul, Bev Stephen Thompson this is only a blip we realise there will be ups and downs but positive thoughts create positive outcomes xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
23 May at 21:00 · Edited ·
Today Stephen was very tired and not in great form. We are aware we will have days that are good and days that are bad. We continue to thank you for your prayers, messages etc your support is keeping us strong. Could I stress that it's still only immediate family and Stephen is not using his phone as he has had missed calls today. When he is able we will let you know. Thank you all again Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Bev, Paul, and Sefty Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
25 May at 21:04 ·
Today Stephen was a little brighter we know we have good days and bad days so we made the decision today with him being a little brighter to allow Libbie to come in for half an hour to see him he manage a smile when he saw her face and she kissed his cheek. Libbie was very brave as it must be very daunting for a little girl to see her dad that way. We as a family can't thank you enough for your support, prayers texts it's what is getting us through this testing time. Thank you Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Sefty, Paul, Bev and the wider family circle. X Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
26 May at 21:22 ·
Just home from the hospital Stephen is brighter again and so hopefully his operation on the leg will go ahead tomorrow. The last ten days have been getting Stephen stabilised to be strong enough to operate. So tomorrow is the start of his road to recovery keep the prayers going. Thank you everyone from Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Sefty Bev, Paul and the rest of the family xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
27 May at 21:33 ·
Fay and I are sat in the hospital with Stephen it's been a long day he went down this morning at 10 and came back on the ward tonight at 7.30 all has gone well the road to recovery has begun. He has to go to Dublin a week today to see the consultant regarding his arm. The relief we all feel as a family to see him back on the ward. Thank you for all your kind messages prayers etc. We couldn't praise the staff, nurses, consultants at the Royal for how they are looking after Stephen and how they have and are treating us as a family they are amazing people. Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Bev, Sefty, Paul and the wider family circle Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
28 May at 23:22 ·
Just in from a long but lovely day spending it with Stephen he's a lot brighter again today but still very weak. I have told him all who is asking after him and he said to thank you all. Unfortunately he is still not up for visitors as yet but hopefully a few more days of building himself up and he will be able. Thanks again for all your prayers and messages we can't thank you enough. Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Paul, Bev, Sefty and the wider family circle Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
29 May at 22:43 · Edited ·
Stephen today had a very busy hard day. He was with the physio's quite a lot today working on his hand and leg. He got out of the bed for about ten minutes where he was sized for his wheelchair, that was a big thing and he got very light headed and had to be put back into bed. We sat and chatted lots today and although he has been told what his injuries are I had to explain then to him telling him he had bleeding on the brain, brachial plexus injury, broken rib, shattered hand, collapsed lungs, broken femur, broken tib and fib and damaged his knee, he said to me I have been knocked about a bit then! I tell him about all your messages and he smiles so thank you everyone. He is still weak and tired so not quite up for visitors yet xxxx Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
11 hrs ·
Today Stephen was low and not in great form hard to see even with little libbie there he didn't brighten up. Think yesterday really took it out of him. I know it's one day at a time at this stage. Our aim this week is to get him fit for Wednesday to go to Dublin. Thank you to everyone again for your continued support we as a family can't thank you enough Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge 01.06.15
2 hrs ·
Today Stephen is much the same very low and not in great form. They had him out in the wheelchair for 30 mins today and doing lots of physio on his left hand to try and get the swelling down. He went down for X-rays this morning to check his leg and other parts of his body but Unfortunately tonight we had a bit of a set back and the doctors came to tell us Stephen has to have another operation tomorrow on his other hand as they have found he has broken the other hand. Thank you all again for your lovely messages prayers of support xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge 04.06.15
Yesterday at 20:51 ·
Today we had our trip to Dublin Stephen was seen by two of the top nerve specialists. Stephen didn't know what to expect really I was thinking it could be bad news medium news or good news. We got ok news which is better than bad news so there was a positive. They can operate and transfer nerves out of Stephens chest area to connect them from the neck to the arm this will give Stephen some movement in the top part of his arm. Stephen has had a lot to take on today an although found it hard to take in is determined that he is going to put all his effort into getting his arm mobile. We can't thank the nurses at the royal enough for all the work and care they are giving Stephen even one of the nurses was in Dublin on her day off and called in and spent the whole time we were there with us. Also tonight we met a lovely couple who has gone through a similar thing 15 years ago they called into see Stephen they have been following our updates on FB and contacted me to see if they could come and see him, speaking to Robbie really helped Stephen tonight. Again thank you for all your well wishes and prayers keep them coming. Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Sefty, Paul, Bev and the wider family circle.
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 23 July at 00:12 ·
Ok I haven't updated since last Wednesday as you know when Stephen had his accident he suffered a lot of injuries his arm being one of the worst, he had the brachial plexus injury and a bad break in the forearm but lots of trauma to the arm. He has had lots of problems with the arm since that day. As my last post was we went to the ulster hospital last Wednesday for a consultation what we thought for a skin graft and they weren't happy with it so they admitted him with a view to operate on him immediately he had an operation on his arm on the Thursday as they needed all the surgeons involved the prognosis wasn't good and the surgeon didn't give us good news that night. They scheduled him in on Saturday for another operation on the arm but unfortunately that didn't go well either Stephens arm suffered so much trauma in the accident and the forearm was suffering from muscle wastage and other problem with blood supply. The surgeons explained to us that it was infected and if they didn't act soon it could be a worse situation than we were in. Stephen had to make a life changing decision either to lose the lower part of his arm or we could lose him. Stephen made this decision on Sunday after speaking to the surgeons and today the operation was scheduled in. Stephen has come through today's surgery well and today is the start of the road to recovery. Thank you for all your continued support and prayers it means a lot to us all especially to Stephen.
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 24 July at 22:24 · Edited ·
Stephen was suffering today with lots of what they call phantom nerve pain. The pain team came around and are trying different medication to try and sort this out. He will hopefully be back in Musgrave early next week to start back with his rehabilitation which means he is one step closer to home. It's hard to think the accident is 10 weeks tomorrow he has been through so much mentally and physically in that time, he is definitely a fighter and we will get through this. Over the last two days the messages, phone calls have been mind blowing we cant thank you all enough for your support it is really helping us and keeping our spirits up. Thank you to all the staff at the Ulster hospital for their kind care and support. Please keep stephen in your prayers x
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 23 hrs ·
Stephen today has had a good day talking very positive about his goals and I have to say looks very good his mobility of getting in and out of the bed and manoeuvring himself about himself is really good. He is still suffering with what they call phantom pain. He is hoping to get back to musgrave mon/tues to get back to his rehab. We can't thank the staff at the ulster enough for their support and care though. Today he had a special little visitor and Cousin Bradley came into see him smile emoticon. Please keep Stephen in your prayers for his continued recovery.
27.07.2015 - Stephen was sadly forced to make the choice to have his forearm amputated after the accident. This decision was made to prevent further infection and further damage to Stephen's body. Obviously this is a huge change for Stephen and the money raised via this GoFund page will go towards a new prosthetic arm for him and further rehab. Charlotte, Stephen and their family would like to thank everyone for their kind support and help over the last very difficult 10 weeks.
On the 16th May 2015, popular Irishman Stephen Thompson was involved in a serious accident at the International Northwest 200. The 39-year-old from Crumlin, Co Antrim was seriously injured in a crash where he was trying to avoid a fallen rider.
This is the story by his lovely partner Charlotte of the events since the accident:-
“Stephen sadly suffered a collapsed lung, bleeding on the brain, brachial plexus injury – which means at the minute we don’t know if he has severed the nerves or badly damaged them but he currently has no feeling or use of his left arm. He has broken the left forearm and shattered his hand – this was operated on the day of the accident and he was in theatre for 7 hours, they plated his forearm and now has a cage around the hand where they have pinned and wired it. The Royal Belfast Hospital then sent him to ICU following the operation, where he was put under heavy sedation until the Tuesday to help him with his lungs and trauma to the body.
On the Wednesday they transferred him to the fracture ward where he took a turn for the worse in the middle of the night and they had to call for the special care team to come and work and look after him as he was too weak to move back to ICU. The Thursday and Friday were extremely touch-and-go and the doctors were very worried about his and his deterioration, this put back his operation that was pencilled in for his leg on the Friday until he was strong enough to deal with the surgery.
The operation went ahead on his leg on Wednesday 27th May, he went to surgery at 10.15 and came back onto the ward that evening at 8pm. He had a pin put in his femur and they have put an external cage around the bottom part of his leg to fix the broken tibia and fibula. He can’t weight bare on the leg for at least 6 – 8 weeks and until we know his progress they haven’t give us a time on how long the cage will be on.
Stephen currently has no feeling from the shoulder down on his left arm so he is being transported via ambulance on Wednesday 3rd June for the day to see a top nerve specialist, he will go down to Dublin and back in the day. It looks like Stephen could be in hospital for a long stay until he has more movement in his arm and leg. The broken ribs are making progress which is also helping get his breathing more stable.”
As a friend of Charlotte, partner to Stephen I have set up this page to help him with his rehab and recovery which is set to be a very long road. Stephen is self-employed and currently remains in the Royal Belfast hospital, he was originally in Intensive Care/HDU for several days and the doctors anxiously waited for progress before they could perform another operation.
Stephen and Charlotte have two girls Fay and Libbie, they are asking for nothing from anyone except prayers and well wishes. I suggested to Charlotte to set up this GoFund page and if anyone wishes to help with a donation to help Stephen with his recovery it would be very much appreciated.
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/rider-stephen-thompson-spectator-critical-9271000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32771583
ALL the donations made on this page will go to Charlotte and Stephen to help with his recovery of his terrible injuries.
Here are some updates from Charlotte
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
21 May at 20:22 · Edited ·
Stephen through the night had a drop in his progress. HDU team have been on hand today and helping him they have stabilised him at the moment and we are praying his progress continue. We continue as a family to thank you all for continued support. Charlotte, Fay, a Libbie Sefty, Paul, Bev Stephen Thompson this is only a blip we realise there will be ups and downs but positive thoughts create positive outcomes xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
23 May at 21:00 · Edited ·
Today Stephen was very tired and not in great form. We are aware we will have days that are good and days that are bad. We continue to thank you for your prayers, messages etc your support is keeping us strong. Could I stress that it's still only immediate family and Stephen is not using his phone as he has had missed calls today. When he is able we will let you know. Thank you all again Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Bev, Paul, and Sefty Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
25 May at 21:04 ·
Today Stephen was a little brighter we know we have good days and bad days so we made the decision today with him being a little brighter to allow Libbie to come in for half an hour to see him he manage a smile when he saw her face and she kissed his cheek. Libbie was very brave as it must be very daunting for a little girl to see her dad that way. We as a family can't thank you enough for your support, prayers texts it's what is getting us through this testing time. Thank you Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Sefty, Paul, Bev and the wider family circle. X Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
26 May at 21:22 ·
Just home from the hospital Stephen is brighter again and so hopefully his operation on the leg will go ahead tomorrow. The last ten days have been getting Stephen stabilised to be strong enough to operate. So tomorrow is the start of his road to recovery keep the prayers going. Thank you everyone from Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Sefty Bev, Paul and the rest of the family xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
27 May at 21:33 ·
Fay and I are sat in the hospital with Stephen it's been a long day he went down this morning at 10 and came back on the ward tonight at 7.30 all has gone well the road to recovery has begun. He has to go to Dublin a week today to see the consultant regarding his arm. The relief we all feel as a family to see him back on the ward. Thank you for all your kind messages prayers etc. We couldn't praise the staff, nurses, consultants at the Royal for how they are looking after Stephen and how they have and are treating us as a family they are amazing people. Charlotte, Fay, Libbie, Bev, Sefty, Paul and the wider family circle Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
28 May at 23:22 ·
Just in from a long but lovely day spending it with Stephen he's a lot brighter again today but still very weak. I have told him all who is asking after him and he said to thank you all. Unfortunately he is still not up for visitors as yet but hopefully a few more days of building himself up and he will be able. Thanks again for all your prayers and messages we can't thank you enough. Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Paul, Bev, Sefty and the wider family circle Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
29 May at 22:43 · Edited ·
Stephen today had a very busy hard day. He was with the physio's quite a lot today working on his hand and leg. He got out of the bed for about ten minutes where he was sized for his wheelchair, that was a big thing and he got very light headed and had to be put back into bed. We sat and chatted lots today and although he has been told what his injuries are I had to explain then to him telling him he had bleeding on the brain, brachial plexus injury, broken rib, shattered hand, collapsed lungs, broken femur, broken tib and fib and damaged his knee, he said to me I have been knocked about a bit then! I tell him about all your messages and he smiles so thank you everyone. He is still weak and tired so not quite up for visitors yet xxxx Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge
11 hrs ·
Today Stephen was low and not in great form hard to see even with little libbie there he didn't brighten up. Think yesterday really took it out of him. I know it's one day at a time at this stage. Our aim this week is to get him fit for Wednesday to go to Dublin. Thank you to everyone again for your continued support we as a family can't thank you enough Stephen Thompson
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge 01.06.15
2 hrs ·
Today Stephen is much the same very low and not in great form. They had him out in the wheelchair for 30 mins today and doing lots of physio on his left hand to try and get the swelling down. He went down for X-rays this morning to check his leg and other parts of his body but Unfortunately tonight we had a bit of a set back and the doctors came to tell us Stephen has to have another operation tomorrow on his other hand as they have found he has broken the other hand. Thank you all again for your lovely messages prayers of support xx
Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge 04.06.15
Yesterday at 20:51 ·
Today we had our trip to Dublin Stephen was seen by two of the top nerve specialists. Stephen didn't know what to expect really I was thinking it could be bad news medium news or good news. We got ok news which is better than bad news so there was a positive. They can operate and transfer nerves out of Stephens chest area to connect them from the neck to the arm this will give Stephen some movement in the top part of his arm. Stephen has had a lot to take on today an although found it hard to take in is determined that he is going to put all his effort into getting his arm mobile. We can't thank the nurses at the royal enough for all the work and care they are giving Stephen even one of the nurses was in Dublin on her day off and called in and spent the whole time we were there with us. Also tonight we met a lovely couple who has gone through a similar thing 15 years ago they called into see Stephen they have been following our updates on FB and contacted me to see if they could come and see him, speaking to Robbie really helped Stephen tonight. Again thank you for all your well wishes and prayers keep them coming. Charlotte Fay, Libbie, Sefty, Paul, Bev and the wider family circle.
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 23 July at 00:12 ·
Ok I haven't updated since last Wednesday as you know when Stephen had his accident he suffered a lot of injuries his arm being one of the worst, he had the brachial plexus injury and a bad break in the forearm but lots of trauma to the arm. He has had lots of problems with the arm since that day. As my last post was we went to the ulster hospital last Wednesday for a consultation what we thought for a skin graft and they weren't happy with it so they admitted him with a view to operate on him immediately he had an operation on his arm on the Thursday as they needed all the surgeons involved the prognosis wasn't good and the surgeon didn't give us good news that night. They scheduled him in on Saturday for another operation on the arm but unfortunately that didn't go well either Stephens arm suffered so much trauma in the accident and the forearm was suffering from muscle wastage and other problem with blood supply. The surgeons explained to us that it was infected and if they didn't act soon it could be a worse situation than we were in. Stephen had to make a life changing decision either to lose the lower part of his arm or we could lose him. Stephen made this decision on Sunday after speaking to the surgeons and today the operation was scheduled in. Stephen has come through today's surgery well and today is the start of the road to recovery. Thank you for all your continued support and prayers it means a lot to us all especially to Stephen.
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 24 July at 22:24 · Edited ·
Stephen was suffering today with lots of what they call phantom nerve pain. The pain team came around and are trying different medication to try and sort this out. He will hopefully be back in Musgrave early next week to start back with his rehabilitation which means he is one step closer to home. It's hard to think the accident is 10 weeks tomorrow he has been through so much mentally and physically in that time, he is definitely a fighter and we will get through this. Over the last two days the messages, phone calls have been mind blowing we cant thank you all enough for your support it is really helping us and keeping our spirits up. Thank you to all the staff at the Ulster hospital for their kind care and support. Please keep stephen in your prayers x
Published by Charlotte Pullan Was Bridge · 23 hrs ·
Stephen today has had a good day talking very positive about his goals and I have to say looks very good his mobility of getting in and out of the bed and manoeuvring himself about himself is really good. He is still suffering with what they call phantom pain. He is hoping to get back to musgrave mon/tues to get back to his rehab. We can't thank the staff at the ulster enough for their support and care though. Today he had a special little visitor and Cousin Bradley came into see him smile emoticon. Please keep Stephen in your prayers for his continued recovery.
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