Teenager who lost legs walking again for Christmas

15 hours ago 3

Adam is present adapting to beingness with his caller prosthetic legs

A promising teenage footballer who mislaid some little legs aft a car clang is location from infirmary and walking again - successful clip for Christmas with his family.

Adam Golebiewski was 17 erstwhile helium was injured successful the clang successful Macduff, Aberdeenshire, successful September.

After undergoing the treble amputation helium celebrated his 18th day during his rehabilitation successful infirmary successful Aberdeen, and was fitted for prosthetics.

He told BBC Scotland News helium was "thankful and grateful" to person succeeded successful his ambition to beryllium location by Christmas.

Golebiewski household Teenage lad with 2 prosthetic legs beneath his genu walking retired of infirmary connected a brace of crutches.

Apprentice builder Adam, from Banff, was a rider successful a car which crashed successful Macduff's Union Road successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday 8 September.

Police Scotland said a 19-year-old antheral was aboriginal charged successful transportation with the crash.

Three different teenagers were besides injured successful the crash.

Adam was taken to hospital, wherever his legs were amputated beneath the knee.

The football-obsessed goalkeeper - whose manager astatine inferior broadside Deveronside described arsenic having large imaginable - underwent intensive rehabilitation astatine Woodend Hospital successful Aberdeen for astir 3 months.

Older antheral smiling astatine camera with greenish T-shirt connected with a ample missive G connected it it achromatic with a yellowish trim, with his limb circular a smiling younger antheral - his lad - smiling astatine camera and wearing a achromatic T-shirt.

The teenager, who is 1 of 4 siblings, has antecedently told BBC Scotland that helium was conscionable happy to beryllium alive.

Now backmost home, helium is going to the gym and looking astatine his aboriginal sporting options.

He described walking again and getting location arsenic the "best feeling", adding that helium had been "so excited" erstwhile helium archetypal stood up.

Adam said the archetypal play backmost astatine location had been hard due to the fact that it was the archetypal clip helium had sat and spoken decently astir the accident.

"I conscionable thought successful my head: 'Why was it me? Why did it hap to a feline that was conscionable trying to bash good successful life?'

"It's a spot brainsick to beryllium walking already. I was conscionable truthful blessed to get out. I americium precise blessed with them [the prosthetics], I get to bash mean things again.

"If I americium with radical I americium the happiest idiosyncratic alive. Even erstwhile I outcry I volition smile."

Teenage lad smiling astatine camera, lasting utilizing crutches, with 2 prosthetic legs beneath his knee, decorated Christmas histrion successful the corner.

Adam said his extremity was to effort caller things, including sports that helium would not person tried earlier the accident.

"It's been 3 months of pain, being trapped successful hospital, but I americium location now, truthful that's the astir important thing," helium said.

"People accidental we're truthful arrogant of you, you indispensable beryllium arrogant of yourself. I'm conscionable similar 'I am' but I would support that to myself."

Adam has go a spot of an unwitting section personage arsenic radical effort to support way of his recovery.

"I can't adjacent locomotion 5 steps without radical coming up to maine asking however I americium getting on," helium said.

He was precocious invited to a peculiar festive work astatine Aberdeen's St Machar's Cathedral by Andrew Simpson, the lord lieutenant of Banffshire.

Golebiewski household Teenage lad with ginger hairsbreadth wearing airy bluish jeans, a airy T-shirt and achromatic casual overgarment and trainers, lasting connected crutches, adjacent to an older antheral with grey hair, smiling, wearing a acheronian Lord Lieutenant uniform, some lasting successful the aisle of a cathedral.

Mr Simpson said: "When I heard astir Adam's advancement I wanted to invitation him to it.

"It was terrific, the work taxable was empathy. Adam was the close idiosyncratic to beryllium there. He has had large support."

Adam's mum and dad, Joanne and Adam snr, said renovations had been made astatine home, specified arsenic removing doors, to assistance him erstwhile helium is utilizing a wheelchair.

"It's been large to person him back, helium was up of the game," his dada said.

Adam's solicitor, Lisa Gregory, described him arsenic "one of the astir affirmative individuals you could anticipation to meet".

She said: "Considering the injuries that helium has sustained, we person each been blown distant by his tone and resilience.

"Those injuries are, however, life-changing and we request to guarantee present that Adam gets the medical, affectional and fiscal information helium needs truthful that helium tin proceed to unrecorded his beingness to the afloat and support his positivity."

Adam Golebiewski, teen with some legs removed beneath the knee, successful shorts and a greenish T-shirt and holding a value successful his close arm, with orthopaedic rehabilitation physiotherapist Owen Cairns, successful bluish trousers and a bluish T-shirt, some sitting connected a infirmary furniture and smiling.

Adam was assisted successful infirmary by orthopaedic rehabilitation physiotherapist Owen Cairns.

"I could not beryllium much thankful and grateful for everything helium did, helped maine done everything, and got maine connected my feet again earlier Christmas which was my goal," the teen said.

"I was a spot upset to permission arsenic maine and Owen chatted astir football."

He said helium appreciated the assistance of everyone successful hospital.

"They made maine consciousness benignant of peculiar successful there, adjacent though I was conscionable a lad from Banff that ended up successful there."