A TREE surgeon is unable to speak, eat or walk after part of his skull was removed in the wake of a horror crash.
Ryan Womack, 24, misjudged a bend and smashed into three parked cars, before ending up in a back garden in Manchester last October.
He had just left his friends house and got takeaway from a local fish and chip shop in Manchester when disaster struck.
His mum Helen told Lancs Live: "We were told that he was touch and go. The police told us we had to go to the hospital because he might not make it.
"We arrived in Manchester and I remember the doctor telling us that: 'If we do this surgery he will never be Ryan again.'"
"I just told him to do what he had to do, I would do anything for him to live."
Doctors performed a craniotomy on Ryan, which involves removing a section of his skull to stop the swelling on his brain.
But he is now living in a nursing home in West Lancashire, unable to even recognise his mum.
He has suffered a number of infections since the big operation, and other bouts of illness because he still undergoes different procedures.
Helen added: "I don't think he really recognises us.
"He recognises me as his mum I think, he sometimes holds my hand and plays with my hair but other times there is nothing there."
Helen is trying to fundraise £10,000 to care for her son at home.
The money will be used to build an extension int their house so Ryan can have access to a downstairs bedroom, toilet and care facilities.
Greater Manchester Police issued a statement after Ryan's crash, appealing for more information.
They have confirmed that there is no ongoing investigation as a result of the incident.
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