He spoke of the eighty -eighties, Paul Young’s pop symbol of the eighty -eighty, Paul Young’s symbol. He slipped and fell on the hotel steps while walking for breakfast.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the 69 -year -old recalls: “I just put my foot on the first step, my foot slipped. I fell and my leg cracked. ” Adding that he lost control, he fell to three other, four steps, breaking the foot again and again.

“It was a multiple fracture. When I stopped, I looked down and my foot was in a slightly strange position, “he notes, saying that he tried to straighten it and then the pain began.

As soon as Paul’s wife, 53 -year -old Lorna, informed the hotel after the accident in September, Paul was rushed to the Santorini General Hospital in Karterado, where x -rays showed a series of fractures on his left femur.

“The fractures were so close to each other that there was a risk of breaking the foot. The only drug they had was paracetamol. I was screaming all the time and most of the time I had my eyes closed because the pain was terrible, “he said.

According to the Mirror, without surgeons at the Santorini Hospital, Paul was lying on the stretcher, on the hospital corridor for nine hours while trying to arrange a private flight to be transferred to Athens, where he could receive the urgent care he needed. The next morning, after reaching a hospital in Athens, Paul underwent surgery.

Paul, according to the report, spent the next two days in intensive care as he had severe bleeding and needed three blood transfusions. “In the early days there was such a great deal of blood loss that the sheets were changed every day. Many people were going to see the wound and everyone was talking Greek, so I didn’t know what they were saying, “he said.

After a fortnight in the hospital, Paul – who still had low hemoglobin, otherwise known as anemia – returned to the United Kingdom by private plane, flying below 30,000+ feet altitude that the airlines arrived in order to reduce the risk of

He then spent two days at a private clinic in London, where he was watched and helped to use crutches and climb stairs before returning home to Bedfordshire’s Dunstble, where he slowly gained strength and was able to walk again. At the end of November, Paul encountered a new difficulty as he broke a screw, resulting in the metal component on his leg going down.

“The pain was intense,” recalls Paul. “Once I had started to feel I was doing better. I was using only one crutch in the kitchen and I had started driving my car again. Then I woke up one morning with anxiety. I thought, “Why don’t painkillers work?” Paul, who had another 10 hours of intervention to make the broken accessory, adds: “I haven’t succeeded in doing so. It’s the worst injury I ever had. “

Today, five months after its frightening decline and after regular physiotherapy, hydrotherapy rehabilitation sessions and daily resistance zone exercises, Paul no longer uses crutches. He is “annoyed” that he cannot “dance on stage” yet, but he thinks positively.

“I’m prone to accidents. I have done so many stupid things all these years. In Australia, I slipped to the side of the stage and were two sides. On a tour of America, I was on a four -wheeled bike in Antigua, I “clashed” on some dunes and fell in front of two sides. I just can’t believe that when I finally took the biggest break of my life, I just fell as I went for breakfast in Santorini! “