A mother fears for her son severely injured in a 100ft balcony plunge after her local council stopped funding his round-the-clock care.
Shaun Whitmore was 19 when he suffered severe brain damage falling while on holiday in Ibiza in 2005.
The trauma left him wheelchair bound for life, unable to talk or carry out basic daily tasks, reported Liverpool Echo .
Shaun is now being looked after by a team of carers, who visit his Everton's home three times a day, including a night-time carer who sleeps at the Bungalow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
But mum Hilary, 53, was recently told Liverpool Council is going to stop funding Shaun's healthcare.
That could mean Mr Whitmore being taken into emergency care and ending the arrangement of the last 15 years of him being looked after by his mum.
In a statement, Liverpool City Council said: "We are aware of Mrs Whitmore’s concerns and we are working with her and Shaun to ensure that his needs continue to be met in his own home.”
A team of two carers arrive at their Wilbraham Street home at 7am to get her son showered, toilet him and to give him breakfast.
They next take him to the bus where he is driven to a day centre for people with disabilities on County Road in Walton, for four days of the week.
At 3.30pm, they return, again putting him on the toilet, and feeding him his dinner.
A few hours later, at 8pm, the carers arrive again, spending three hours at the home as they prepare the one-time model for bedtime.
The mum told the ECHO: "Shaun has very complex needs.
"I've been caring for him for 15 years, but I can't do it on my own.
"I've broken my back, I have a heart condition and I've severe arthritis .
"Shaun is 5ft 11in and a big lad, and to do it on my own, as a woman, is too much. I just want him at home for Christmas.
"If Shaun was sent to assisted living, they'd put him in nappies or pads on him, and neither he or me want that.
"The last time [at an emergency centre], they gave him medication to calm him down, but I don't want him drugged up.
"I do understand there's a crisis in adult social care, but I just want a bit of help.
"Eighty per cent of patients with his type of brain injury don't recover.
"I'm highly stressed about this. From Monday, I worry having to do everything on my own."
Shaun's condition has neither improved nor worsened in recent years, and the former Kwik Save and Topman worker has no prospect of getting better.
After the accident, Shaun spent eight months at Royal Liverpool Hospital and then another 11 months in the Walton Centre where patients with brain injuries are cared for.
Doctors in Spain told the mum her son's life support should be switched off and his organs donated.
When he was in hospital back on Merseyside, she would visit him every day, gave him a full-body massage and put headphones in his ears with motivating messages from his friends to listen to.
Hilary has described him as "my same old cheeky, cheeky chappy."
