2024-05-01 15:59:43
Tanja Szewczenko appears visibly distraught. On Instagram she tells a dramatic story from her everyday family life – and shows disturbing pictures.
She struggles to compose herself, searches for the right words, is close to tears: Tanja Szewczenko. The former figure skater and actress, known for roles in “Unter Uns” and “Alles was counts”, reports in a long Instagram story about an accident that, according to her description, occurred a good two weeks ago. Her three-year-old son Leo suffered a serious head injury.
“I can’t undo it,” says the mother of three, looking visibly shaken. She keeps fighting back tears and trying to get her emotions under control. “I blamed myself a lot,” she says. Then she reports about the accident: “Leo and Luis were playing outside in the garden. On the artificial turf. There was nothing on this entire area where you could have gotten injured. We had set up the paddling pool and the children were having fun.”
“Then suddenly I heard someone crying”
Tanja Szewczenko continues, saying that she only briefly went into the kitchen to get mosquito spray. “Then suddenly I heard someone crying,” said the 46-year-old. “At that moment I thought: That must have hurt.” In fact, she was right. The three-year-old suffered a laceration, evidence of which is a deep cut on his forehead – and Szewczenko is now showing this to her around 300,000 followers on Instagram. The deep wound can be seen second in the series of images when you click on the right arrow.
It was a shock for her. She immediately got a cloth to stop the bleeding. “Then I suddenly panicked. I was shouting on the street that I needed help, but I also kept talking to Leo and asking him questions: what his name was, who I was, simple questions that a small child could answer, etc to see if there’s anything wrong.”
“Hit his head right on the edge of the step”
She remembered a first aid course. “I knew he wasn’t unconscious.” Nevertheless, she was “immensely afraid” and “as a layperson she could not assess” the nature of the head injury. In fact, in the picture you can see a deep gash about three to four centimeters long. Her son slipped on the lawn, but in a very bad place. “He hit his head right on the edge of the step.”
In the past few weeks, Tanja Szewczenko has visited the doctor “every two to three days” to have the boy examined. No brain damage was found: she was “grateful that nothing more happened.” In light of the accident, Szewczenko wanted to raise awareness about first aid courses. “You can’t prepare emotionally for something like this and I’m so happy that nothing more than a scar will remind you of the accident.”