A man has been left paralysed from the neck down after a harrowing fall from the balcony of his three-storey flat. Callum Falconer, 26, regards it as a "miracle" to be alive following the incident where he sustained severe injuries, including a broken neck, spine, ribs, and hips. Callum was on the balcony railing of his flat—a decision he takes responsibility for, acknowledging it was "his own fault.
" Following the accident, he was urgently airlifted to the Royal London Hospital, where his fight for recovery continues. Despite his grave condition, Callum, a mechanic from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex , holds onto a determination to recover as fully as possible, grateful simply to be alive. He has endured three weeks of hospital treatment, including a complex three-part neck surgery which involved inserting metal rods, correcting the break, and removing bone fragments.
Currently, limited movement in his arms is all he has regained. He vividly recalls the terrifying moment of the accident, saying, "I remember my neck snapping and I thought that this was it," and "I remember I couldn’t speak, feel my arms and everything went still." The aftermath of the event saw him drifting into unconsciousness, eerily aware of the severity of his injury as he heard the snap and then felt an ominous absence of sensation.
The location of Callum's neck break—a mere three millimetres below a point that doctors say would have cost him his life on the spot—highlights the narrow margin between life an.
