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I thought my daughter was dead after she was ‘wiped out’ by paraglider at Turkish resort – it’s a mum’s worst nightmare
Her distraught mum has launched a GoFundMe to help cover Lily's hospital bills - scroll down to donate
A DEVASTATED mum has told of her nightmare ordeal when her teen daughter was "wiped out" by a paraglider during a family holiday in Turkey.
Lyndsey Logan, 39, described the moment she thought her daughter Lily Nichol “was dead” after the freak accident, which left her in intensive care.
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Lily, 15, was rushed to Letoon Hospital in Fethiye, Turkey, where she is being looked after by medics.
She will now need a back surgery and a jaw operation, ramping up her hospital bills to a whopping £45,000.
The family were on the final day of their trip to the popular resort of Oludeniz, when horror unfolded.
Distraught mum Lyndsey, 39, from Durham, told The Sun: “It’s a mum’s worst nightmare.”
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Lyndsey was in Turkey enjoying lunch on the final day of her holiday with her two girls Megan Nichol, 19, and Lily Nichol, 15, when her youngest daughter was “wiped out” by a paraglider at the table.
Lily, who was supposed to fly home with her family yesterday evening, remains in hospital after suffering several horrific injuries.
Distraught Lyndsey said: “We were meant to fly home at 7.30pm, so today we went down for our last lunch together, having nice English food.
“I just remember Lily just eating, biting into a slice of pizza and this paraglider just came from nowhere and just totally wiped her out over the table.
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“She face-planted the table and we tried to get her up. Obviously she was unconscious and she had a stroke while she was down. I thought she was dead.
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“So I pulled her, we tried, everyone pulled her back onto her side and her eye was all gashed open.
"The ambulance came, they took her away and we half had to go into the hotel, I got a passport to go to the hospital.”
But Lyndsey was unaware that their holiday did not include travel insurance - and when Lily arrived at the hospital, they were met with a massive bill.
The mum said: “We had to raise £7,000 to pay for what she’s had so far.
"The hospital told us that she’s got a bleed on the brain. She’s got a broken jaw, but she’s broken the bone in her jaw.
“She’s possibly got a broken back, and she’s got broken ribs. They’ve noticed that her tongue’s been split in half too."
The devastated mum said on Saturday her daughter will now need a back surgery and a jaw operation.
But the family is yet to make a call on whether to proceed with the operations as they do not have enough money to cover the medical expenses.
The family is currently relying on a GoFundMe page, which has so far raised just over £7,000.
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Lyndsey told The Sun: “There's no one else I can ask for help. They’re expecting us just to make a decision by tomorrow to carry on with the operation. I was like, that is money I don’t have.
“There’s no one who can give us that kind of money.”
Lyndsey admitted she can’t get the image of the accident out of her mind, as she feared for the worst.
She said: “I thought she was dead, I thought she was dead, I was screaming I was like where’s the ambulance and I was like ‘Lily keep talking to us, keep talking to us’.”
The mum-of-two was enraged after seeing the man who paraglided into her daughter allegedly joking around and drinking with friends, following her daughter’s near-death experience.
Lyndsey expressed frustration with the delay in police action, saying: “This man who has actually done this to my daughter, he could have been, he could have left his country by now.”
She called the police and claims they did nothing to help on Friday, but are meant to visit her tomorrow.
Lyndsey said on Friday: “Not one policeman has been to see me.
"I rang them and said I need the police here - I said the man who’s hurt my daughter, put her in hospital is in my hotel.
"And then the police hung up on us.”
The mum said she could end up with a bill over £40,000 for Lily’s hospital treatment, while also continuing to pay hotel costs to stay near her daughter.
, desperately appealing for funds to help her little girl, which had an "amazing" response as it raised over £2000 in the first few hours.
But her focus remains on her daughter, who she hopes will “pull through” after the horrific accident.
She said: “I just never want to go on holiday again I don’t think. I just want to wrap her round in cotton wool.
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"Like, I just can’t get a face on my head. I thought he was dead. It’s a mum’s worst nightmare.”
A UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson told The Sun: “We are providing support to a British girl and her family following an accident in Turkey.”
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