Lindsay Wilson: Mom films HORRIFIC moment her son fractures his spine while he tombstoned into lake
PEMBROKESHIRE, WALES: Lindsay Wilson, a 41-year-old NHS worker, was filming her son as he leaped from the edge of the quarry more than 30 feet into a lake in Wales, striking the water with the force of landing on concrete, fracturing his spine. "Last week, I visited the beauty spot in Abereiddy, Pembrokeshire." Lindsay from Bradford, West Yorkshire, said. Her son had previously successfully completed the plunge and decided to try again, which she documented on her phone.
Lindsay noticed her son was in trouble moments after he entered the water in a ''slightly seated position'' and had ''turned pale'' when he returned to the surface. Before several other swimmers came to his aid, the teenager was able to cling to rocks at the quarry's edge. She told Wales Online, ''Sam's a big lad for 16 and a fantastic swimmer so we didn't think anything was up initially. There were others in the lagoon at the same time and we just thought he was just waiting for them to get out first."
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''But then we could see he'd turned pale and was holding onto the rocks.'' According to Lindsay, a woman from a local outdoor adventure group swam over to her son. Tessa from Celtic Quest Coasteering said she was fantastic in assisting her son. ''She got him on his back and, using a paddleboard as a makeshift stretcher, a few of them swam him over to the shore. We're so grateful to them for doing that, I can't imagine what might have happened otherwise", she said.
The teenager was airlifted by a coastguard helicopter to an ambulance, which transported him to a hospital in Carmarthen, where he underwent a CT scan. Doctors discovered the teen had a spinal fracture and required a body brace. Commenting on her son's injuries, Lindsay said, ''When he was first checked out he must have still been in shock because he told doctors that he couldn't feel any pain in his back so it's a good job they were so thorough and insisted he has the scan. We're just hoping that the injury will heal itself over time and he won't need any surgery.''
Lindsay said she and Sam's father "are sleeping on his bedroom floor at night in case he needs anything during the night.'' She stated that she wanted people to see her son's video so they wouldn't take the same danger of tombstoning from a high level. Despite his injuries, she said, some children at the quarry continued to jump into the water just minutes after the rescue.
