Crash means further wait for a new hip (From Free Press Series)

Crash means further wait for a new hip

9:57am Thursday 3rd December 2009

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MIKEY Carver is "lucky to be alive" after being hit by a car as he walked home.

The 21-year-old, from Great Oak, near Raglan, suffered a broken leg, injuries to his head and neck, and bruised ribs when he was knocked over on the B4598 near Clytha on November 25. He spent five nights at Abergavenny’s Nevill Hall Hospital and had his leg pinned, but is now at home recovering.

Although he will be unable to walk until the New Year, he just feels lucky to be alive.

Mr Carver was knocked unconscious at the time of the collision, waking up in hospital. Police told his mother, Lois, 44, he had gone through the car’s windscreen.

As a boy he played prop for Llanyrafon Primary School and Cwmbran Rugby Club but was diagnosed with Perthes disease at the age of nine, putting an end to his sporting ambitions. A lack of blood in his thigh bone was causing his hip joint to collapse.

He started using a wheelchair and was tutored at home for six months, before joining Fairwater Comprehensive School.

When he was 16, he spent six months learning to walk again with the help of a physiotherapist. The accident was thus a major setback as he was due to have a hip replacement in the next few months.

He does not know how long it will now be delayed for and is frustrated by the setback.

"I really wanted to get it over and done with," he said.

Mr Carver said he will be unable to go to work, as an administration assistant at a C&M Plant in Pontypool, for around two months while he recovers.

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