A young and fit soccer coach died of deep vein thrombosis after spending hours during coronavirus blockage playing computer games.
Center Parcs worker Louis O’Neill, 24, was fired in March and started playing with friends to get bored.
Her grieving father, Stanley Greening, 56, warned other families of the dangers of youth locked in their rooms without being active.
Center Parcs worker Louis O’Neill, 24, was fired in March and started playing with friends to get bored. O’Neill, photographed with his father Stanley Greening, died in June of deep vein thrombosis.
O’Neill spent much of his time locked up playing computer games
On social media, Mr. Greening wrote: ‘On June 3 something so horrible happened, the worst that can happen to such a young man and the worst that can happen to a father. My son, my dear Louis, is gone.
Not because of the evil virus, but because of him. His young life, barely started yet trying to find his feet, just started. The devastation … after seeing my dear boy go like this, I’m in hell.
‘This damn confinement. After being suspended, he went to his gaming world to escape. Trapped in a virtual world, he became less active, so easy to do.
Hours fly by when absorbed by the screen. I have done it countless times myself. But nobody, I mean no, never in a million years would have predicted a blood clot. And so, he destroyed my son and I died inside along with him.
’24 years old. Who is warning young people? Who is warning someone of any age? None. So I am . My son will live, I will continue to spread this warning on his behalf.
Mr. Greening of Harlington, Bedfordshire said: ‘This terrible thing was avoidable if he or we had known of such risks.
Like many, I associate it with older people and some of what we are warned about on planes.
‘Since more and more of us are working from home, you probably won’t get out of your chair as much as you need to. Get up, walk and warn your children.
‘If I can avoid a loss in my son’s name, then that is a bright light that will shine in Louis. So defend Louis.
Louis’s funeral was on June 24, and the family sent a memory page to a youth sports charity.
In an interview with the BBC Three Counties Radio, Stanley, who works as an artist, said: ‘He was fired a week after the closing. He was quite happy and said, ‘I’m going to enjoy this a little bit.’
Greening said he was in “living hell” after the death of his son Louis
‘Louis has always enjoyed his games. He was talking to his friends and I think he found some comfort in that. He had his friends online. He had a virtual world to exist in during the nightmare that was happening outside.
Hours would pass. I couldn’t tell how long it was on the computer. There were times when I would get up in the morning and go down the stairs for breakfast and he would get up and realize that he had been awake all night.
‘6 to 7 hours at a time, probably with very little rest. He was sitting there all day. He gained a little weight.
She was encouraging him to go out with his little sister. He would say yes. He went out to the stores a couple of times, but he disappeared and got a little depressed.
‘I couldn’t get a 24-year-old boy out. I was teasing him and he was getting mad at me. He told me to leave me alone.
Two weeks before Louis died, his father said he got up one morning at five-thirty and saw Louis sitting on a step near the bathroom. He said, ‘Dad, can you help me? I have not felt well.
Stanley said: ‘I helped him up the stairs. He was approaching his bed, his weight was falling. I caught him and put him on the bed and he passed out.
‘I shook him again and he woke up again. I called 111. They called a doctor and the doctor suggested it had been food poisoning.
Stanley and his team managed to walk to their assignment, but after that Louis said he was tired and his leg was bothering him.
On June 3 at 10:30 p.m., Stanley said his wife found Louis bent at the top of the stairs. He continued, “I helped him into the bedroom and thought, ‘It’s happening again.’ I called 111 immediately.
“He sat on the floor against the bed and said,” What’s wrong with me, dad?
The paramedics arrived, but he died.
Greening added: ‘This was very preventable. That’s what hurts. These are victims hidden during the confinement.
‘I remember my son telling me that Boris Johnson said that we are going to lose some loved ones. He said that is terrible. ‘
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