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GP chairman Ron Walker tells of brain surgery after bike accident
Anne Wright
Herald Sun
March 24, 2010 9:31AM		  
GRAND Prix chairman Ron Walker has had a lucky escape after undergoing surgery to relieve dangerous bleeding on the brain after a bike accident.

Mr Walker, who said he’ll be taking it easy at the Albert Park event this weekend, fell off his bike a few months ago while riding around the Botanical Gardens and hit his forehead on the ground.

“I hit my head on the gutter and I didn’t realise how hard I had hit my head,” he told 3AW radio. Mr Walker said a number of months had passed without any headaches so he was confident he had escaped serious injury.

But last Saturday he said he was getting dressed and couldn’t do up his buttons or tie and realised there may be a problem. Mr Walker called a friend who was a neurosurgeon who told him to go to hospital where he underwent an MRI scan that revealed a fluid build-up on the brain.

“They bored a hole in my head and then I had to lay flat for a few days,” he said.

Even though he was wearing a bicycle helmet, Mr Walker said he had hit his head just above the eyebrow.

Doctors told him that if the fluid build-up had not been diagnosed, it could have caused a seizure and had potentially devastating consequences, Mr Walker said. “These things do affect you in many ways,” he said.

While he would continue to attend every day of the Grand Prix event this weekend, Mr Walker said he would not be walking around as much as usual.

And even though Mr Walker’s wife gave him a “dressing down” after the accident, Mr Walker said he wouldn’t change his busy lifestyle as a result of the scare.

“When you are born in an energetic state you can’t change that, it keeps you alive,” he said. “(I’m) very grateful.

“When you walk around the tan you take everything in more.”
 		  

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