An 11-year-old boy from Christchurch who plummeted 30 metres down a cliff face about two weeks ago has been visited in hospital by one of his sporting heroes.
All Black and Crusaders midfielder Braydon Ennor stopped in at Caleb Clarke’s bedside in Christchurch Hospital – the young boy’s mother, Kylie Rate, telling Stuff not even his long-awaited hospital discharge the next day could surpass his excitement at meeting the rugby star.
[Caleb Clarke, 11, pictured two weeks after suffering multiple injuries to his face]
Rate says just like Caleb, Braydon is out of play for a year after busting his knee. She says it’s good for Caleb to have someone who can tell him it’s going to be okay, that he’ll soon be up running stronger.
Her son was recovering in “little steps” after slipping and falling during a walk through Orari Gorge in South Canterbury, smacking into a rock before tumbling into the water on January 11.
[Caleb Clarke gets a push in his wheelchair from little brother William.]
[Source: Stuff.co]
