Blasted by 22 pieces of shrapnel, Manchester Arena bombing survivor Martin Hibbert charts his gruelling recovery…
Stay with me, Eve. I'm here. Daddy's here.. How a father simply refused to let his teenage daughter die when, just a few feet away from them, the Manchester Arena bomber blew himself up -Blasted by 22 pieces of shrapnel, Martin Hibbert's only thought was to use his dying breath to demand his rescuers save his teenage daughter first. His account of the Manchester Arena bombing in yesterday's Daily Mail will have made any parent shudder.
'Here's yer mam and dad on their wedding day,' he said, but I was fixated instead on an older woman in the family line-up. 'She comes to see me at night,' I said, pointing at her with a chubby finger. The blast tore mobile phones and wallets out of hands and pockets, causing huge identification problems in those early few hours. Other than me gasping 'Martin' to the security guard when he asked me my name, no one had the faintest idea who I was.
Abedi's rucksack contained more than 3,000 nuts and bolts, packed tightly around the bomb, and I'd been blasted by 22 pieces of this deadly shrapnel. My wife Gabby worried herself sick that at any point I'd ask, 'Why can't I move my legs?' and push for an honest answer. Finally, after ten days, doctors decided the time was right.
A TV magically appeared, my two brothers arrived with beers for themselves and I was hoisted out of bed and into a chair so that I could feel involved. The manoeuvre was incredibly painful but I felt as if I was rejoining the human race. Advertisement she would look very different. She had a tracheotomy to help her breathe and her head was bandaged and very, very swollen.
ACCORDING to Stuart, that day was a turning point in my recovery. 'Seeing Eve turned on a switch,' he said. 'Until then, you'd been relatively quiet. Suddenly, you were a different person. It was a case of, 'I need to get right for my daughter.' ' tap, tap. Thinking back to those visits still upsets me. As a parent, you want to fix anything upsetting your child. But there was nothing I could do.
My friend Kevin Paul – a tattoo artist who has inked celebrities such as Ed Sheeran, Rihanna and Harry Styles – agreed to help me become the first hospital in-patient to have a tattoo. Eventually she found a house in Chorley, just outside Bolton, which had a downstairs wet room and bathroom. It was also closer to Bradford where Eve eventually returned to live with her mum, Sarah, the following February, after nine months in hospital. By then she was 15 and a long road lay ahead. She was still non-verbal, being fed by tube and would require care 24/7 for life. Walking, talking and eating would need to be learned all over again, but I had no doubt she'd get there.
It's like a huge tree falling across a motorway. With enough incentive, and the right conditions in place, drivers will eventually find a way around the obstruction. According to Ken, that's exactly how the body works too.
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