A Scots holidaymaker had his leg amputated after a horror crash in Miami and is now stranded in the US.
Jordan Rennie, 28, went to Miami for a motorbike event but was left with horrific injuries after being smashed into by a hit and run driver.
Mum Leighan Pearson had bought her son a surprise ticket to the GVO Biking Event on February 18 this year.
But the trip of a lifetime turned into a holiday from hell when a car smashed into Jordan’s bike, before speeding off and leaving doctors battling to save his life.
Jordan phoned his mum from his mobile after the crash screaming for her help, before the phone suddenly disconnected.
Leighan said: “Jordan called me and said ‘I’m sorry mum, my legs hanging off the side of the road and I think I’m going to die here’.”
Leighan told the Daily Record: “I’m in despair. As a mother I decided to surprise Jordan on Christmas morning with a ticket to the Miami event not knowing what nightmare was to come.
“Jordan was just minding his own business when a car skipped a red light, smashed into his side and just took him out the game. He said his life flashed before his eyes.”
She continued: “He lay for one hour with no assistance at the side of the road. No ambulance came for him until a kind gentleman stopped to help. Jordan had to throw himself in the back of his car and he quickly took Jordan to the nearest hospital where he lay on a floor and they wrapped him up in a sheet.”
As the news came through, Leighan’s friends and family helped her to buy a flight to Miami to be with Jordan.
He was transferred to Miami’s Jackson Ryder Hospital where surgeons quickly decided that they had to amputate his left leg below the knee in order to save Jordan’s life.
He is now preparing for a third operation.
She said: “I was in Heathrow to get my connecting flight when I received another call from a medical assistant in Miami asking for consent to amputate as Jordan was refusing to give any consent for the operation to take place.
"As a mother, this by far had to be the hardest decision I’ve ever been asked to make on the other end of the phone hundreds of miles away and not knowing the extent of the injury’s myself.”
Leighan’s friends have now set up a Go Fundme appeal for donations towards Jordan’s massive medical expenses which she says could be ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’.
She said: “I won’t be able to bring him home until he has healed and I’ve been sleeping on a chair in the hospital just now but it’s freezing. He has some insurance but they are being too slow at the moment and not coming back to me.”
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