A mum who suffered a traumatic head injury after she was hit by a tractor while out running says she had to spend £10,000 on private therapy because NHS services shut down during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pamela Jack, 47, was out running with a friend on a country road near Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, when she was run down by the farm vehicle. Superfit Pamela, who ran the London Marathon in four hours in 2019, spent 17 days on a high dependency unit at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Doctors treated her for a "moderate-to-severe" brain injury, a fractured pelvis, six fractured rips, two left knee fractures, damaged teeth and temporary sight loss in one eye. She was left with two metal plates in her left hip and seven pins in her knee.
