About Jim Philpott

Hi everyone,

This is the first post on our blog About Jim. If you are reading this you will know that Jim had a bad accident on Monday night, December 14. At 9:52 pm he was hit by a 4WD on a pedestrian crossing at the corner of St Lukes Road and Asquith Avenue. It was dark, raining heavily, Jim was wearing black, listening to his iPod, and on his skateboard as he crossed the road. He was hit on the south-western side of St Lukes Road and sustained a serious head injury. His skull was fractured, he broke his humerus just below the shoulder, and a neck vertebra. He also ruptured his spleen, and tore a small piece of his liver.

We have been told that the driver of the 4WD and a nurse who witnessed the accident called an ambulance and administered first aid. Jim was taken to Auckland hospital and is in intensive care. The skill and courage of the emergency doctors and neurosurgeons saved his life on Monday night by removing his spleen to decrease the blood loss. On Tuesday morning, Jim was given a brain operation to remove a clot and relieve pressure on his skull. He is now stable and starting to emerge from the induced coma that he has been in since Monday night. He cannot see any visitors in hospital at the moment.

We are grateful for the many thoughts and prayers of Jim's friends and relations. We will update this blog so that you can find out how he is doing with his recovery and rehabilitation. We have been told that this will be a long and arduous ordeal for Jim and for us, but we are positive that we can bring him back to the Jim that we all love.