Life-saving device
Donors help Christian after horror accident
Since a tragic bike crash, Christian Fillek from the Waldviertel region has had to be ventilated 24 hours a day. Now the 56-year-old has received an urgently needed replacement device.
From one second to the next, everything suddenly changed: June 3, 2023 changed Christian Fillek's life forever - and that of his family. During a stay at a health resort, the 56-year-old suffered serious injuries in a fall on his bike. The bitter diagnosis: bleeding in the cervical vertebrae.
Life-saving second device
Since then, the man from Waldviertel has been in a wheelchair and dependent on a ventilator 24 hours a day. After months in intensive care, the 56-year-old was able to return home to his own four walls in May. "It's worth a lot to be at home," he explains in an interview with "Krone". Since then, his wife Andrea has been looking after him devotedly. She receives support not only from carer Katrin, but also from Helmut Scheuher.
The civil engineer came across Christian Fillek's tragic fate while reading the newspaper and immediately wanted to help. "At first I thought it was a bad joke," admits Andrea Fillek. But it soon became clear that Helmut Scheuher was serious. Together with the companies Böhm Fenster from Heidenreichstein, Itech Elektro in Rohrbach an der Gölsen, Centtex Bau from St. Pölten and Glösmann Montage GmbH from Steinakirchen, an additional ventilator was financed.
There was great joy at the ceremonial handover of the replacement device from Vivisol, which cost 8,500 euros. After all, water in the breathing tube had already caused an emergency situation in the middle of the night. They are now prepared for this.
Biggest wish for Christmas
But that's not all: an urgently needed access ramp and a special entrance door will also soon be organized by the engineering firm Scheuher and the company Fenster Böhm. With so many Christmas wishes fulfilled, only one thing remains: "That it gets better and that I can breathe again myself one day," says Fillek.
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