A British tourist who fell from a hotel balcony is in critical condition at the hospital.
Dan Boyle, 31, and Ashleigh Lomas, 30, were vacationing in Lanzarote when Boyle fell over the balcony wall on the third level of the hotel.
Dan’s untreated pneumonia was found after he was brought to the hospital on the Spanish island, and doctors believe this is what caused him to fall on April 24, just one day into their vacation.
Doctors think the chest infection caused his lungs to fill with fluid, which stopped his heart from pumping and caused him to fall over the balcony.
Dan, an engineer, was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker. He suffered a fractured skull, fractured breast bone, torn kidney and broken ribs in the fall.
He was then flown to a hospital in Gran Canaria, where he had brain surgery, an operation on his kidney, and was placed in an induced coma for four weeks.
Ashleigh says she wants Dan to come home to their two children, eight-year-old Daisy and three-year-old Daniel, as soon as possible.
She said: ‘It’s just an absolute nightmare.
‘It’s something that you would never expect to happen to you.
‘Our children are just missing him, they just want him home.
‘He was perfectly fine. We was in the pool together half an hour before, laughing and joking.
‘He had a little cough but we didn’t think it was anything.
‘It wasn’t a constant cough, it was just a little one, so you obviously wouldn’t think anything of it.’
Dan is no longer in a coma but is still unable to communicate. Doctors believe he has ‘really bad’ brain damage but the full extent won’t be known until he’s fully awake.
He will also need a specialist flight to return home to Stockport, Greater Manchester, which costs around £35,000.
While the couple’s insurance has covered Dan’s hospital bills, it won’t cover his flight home.
Ashleigh is now raising money for the flight, adding: ‘It would mean everything for him to come home, everything would be so much easier for everybody.
‘He will be able to be around people who he knows and get the care that he needs.’
Earlier this week a British bar owner in Lanzarote fell from a balcony to his death following ‘a scuffle with a drunken troublemaker’ – and a German man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder.