Mick Fitzgerald faces more surgery on Monday as he continues to receive treatment for the injuries sustained in a bad fall in last Saturday's Grand National.
Fitzgerald underwent an initial eight-hour operation to realign three vertebrae and two discs at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital last Sunday and has since been relocated to Nuffield Hospital in Oxford.
'He is now sitting up in bed and yesterday received visits from former weighing room colleagues John Francome and Carl Llewellyn,' read a statement posted on the Professional Jockeys Association's official website, www.thepja.co.uk.
'Dominic Elsworth will also be popping in to see him today as well as Josh Apiafi tomorrow morning.
'Yesterday, Jeremy Fairbanks, an orthopaedic surgeon, X-rayed and assessed Mick's neck injury and he will perform a second operation on Mick this Monday, which is estimated to take four to five hours.
'At the same time, he will also undergo surgery to his knee to repair severe ligament damage which he also sustained in the fall last Saturday.'
