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The Block: Hayden rushed to hospital

'I was lucky.' - by Nikki Black
  • 22 Aug 2018
The Block: Hayden rushed to hospital

Construction manager Hayden has revealed the terrifying moment he fractured his neck. The 45-year-old was surfing in Queensland when the incident took place.

‘I instantly thought, “Oh no, this is serious,”’ Hayden recalls of coming off his surfboard in shallow waters.

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‘I hit the top of my head on a shallow sandbank and I knew I had done serious damage to my neck, arms and chest, and I had pins and needles.’ Hayden’s ex-girlfriend was with him at the time and rushed him to hospital

‘I fractured my C3 and C4 [vertebrae] and had done damage to my longitude ligaments, so my neck was very unstable.’

As a result, Hayden was bedridden in hospital for six weeks.

‘I had months and months of physio and acupuncture and it took almost two years before I felt like I had made a full recovery.'

This article originally appeared on New Idea.

Nikki Black
Nikki is obsessed with all things celebrity and dreams she is a long-lost Kardashian. You'll find her binging Netflix's latest 'must-watch' show with a jar of Nutella by her side.

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