Injured apprentice jockey Nyssa Burrells has come out of an induced coma and the reports are positive as she continues to make progress from a brain injury suffered in a fall.
Racing NSW Safety and Welfare officer Phillip O’Brien reported on Tuesday that Burrells has been able to sit up, make eye contact and even begin to talk.
“Nyssa Burrells is out of her induced coma at Liverpool Hospital. She is starting to sit up & make eye contact with her family and is talking a bit.” O’Bien said on Twitter.
“Her father Richard reports that she is starting to recognise family and they continue to take everything one day at a time.”
“Nyssa is moving all limbs and responding to simple commands. Her recent brain CT Scan was encouraging with less swelling. Things are positive at this stage.”
Burrells underwent surgery to relieve a bleed on her brain and was placed in the induced coma after the fall in a jump-out at Warwick Farm last Friday week.
