A young Southampton man who was getting his life back after being paralysed from the neck down has suffered a major set back.
But Jay Young, 23, has been left bed bound after suffering blood poisoning.
The stuntman severed his spinal cord while rehearsing for a show in March and has since then had to adjust to life as a quadriplegic.
Just weeks after ending 2011 on a high – having proposed to his long-term girlfriend Jess Smith – Jay had returned from a shopping trip when he began to feel unwell.
As time passed, he developed an agonising pain in his head, caused by a condition called dysreflexia.
Jay’s mum, Mandy White, 48, from Freemantle, was with him at the time.
She said: “If not treated it can cause a brain haemorrhage, a stroke or even a heart attack.”
Jay’s sudden deterioration was caused by a blocked catheter.
After being rushed to hospital in Salisbury doctors discovered he had blood poisoning and E coli.
It has meant another extended stay in hospital for Jay, who had been discharged as an inpatient earlier this month for the first time since his accident.
Mandy said: “It has knocked him back a bit and shaken him up.
“He’s still got a long way to go.”
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