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Botox will help coma bride walk down the aisle
Feb 21 2003
BOTOX, the toxin that celebrities hope will smooth away their wrinkles, is helping an accident victim to walk again.
Bride-to-be Nia Wynn-Jones, 25, who was unconscious for three weeks after an horrific car crash in Chester, has been receiving botox injections.
And yesterday her father, Pedr Wynn-Jones, of Leeswood, near Mold, North Wales, said there have been major improvements.
"They do seem to be helping. They relax the muscles which are over-toned by allowing movement in the opposite muscles - I'm not quite sure how that works," he said.
"Before the injections, she could not move so well. She's keeping her spirit up and she has vastly improved over the last three weeks."
Nia was kept in an induced coma to allow her brain to recover from the impact of the smash in April last year, when she and fiancé Alan Davies, 27, were on their way to buy furniture for their new home in Leeswood.
She and Alan, a furniture salesman at the Greyhound Retail Park in Chester, have bought a bungalow close to Nia's parent's home in Leeswood.
They had planned to marry this May but the wedding has been put on hold for 12 months to give Nia more time to recover.
In the accident on Sealand Road, Chester, Alan suffered injuries including a broken pelvis, fractured jaw and skull, and has been left partially deaf.
Nia, who had just started a new job in the Mold careers office before the accident, suffered a severe head injury and was taken to Walton Neurological Centre in Liverpool, where she was kept in the induced coma for nearly three weeks. She had also suffered a potentially lethal neck injury.
For Nia the road to recovery has been hard. Simple tasks like eating and talking had to be learned all over again. But she is still unable to walk properly.
She goes to Mold Community Hospital for physiotherapy, but has to go to Clatterbridge Hospital for the botox injections.
"She has six injections in one session, which is not too pleasant especially as Nia does not like needles," said Mr Wynn-Jones.
"She's able to walk a little better now but still has to use a Zimmer frame or bars; she cannot walk unaided. She is making steady progress, better than a few weeks ago, but it is going to be a very, very long job.
"She is getting more active now, even trying to help around the kitchen as long as we hand things to her because she still has a weakness in her left side."
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