Oscar Blaxland was dubbed the ‘Miracle Boy’ after falling out of a six-storey window onto concrete when he was just three. Almost 30 years later… this is what became of him

Oscar Blaxland still remembers the first question he asked his mother after waking from a coma after falling six stories from a window.

The then three-year-old was playing in a unit in Sydney’s Neutral Bay while his father, a property photographer, took some photos for an advertisement.

‘I took my sister’s slipper and threw it out the window,” the 31-year-old software salesman told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Then I stood on the windowsill to see where it landed. I lost my balance and fell head first, but landed on my knees.’

Oscar’s first childhood memory is waking up in the hospital and telling his panicked mother Charlotte, “I want to watch Sesame Street.”

While her son was in a coma, Charlotte promised him that he could watch his favorite character Ernie on the hit children’s show when he woke up.

The detail is all the more heartbreaking when Oscar reveals that doctors had told his devastated parents that he was unlikely to survive the night.

The cheeky toddler played with his sister in a block of flats in Sydney’s Neutral Bay while his dad took photos for a real estate advert in 1996.

Three-year-old Oscar gives a thumbs up as his father pushes his wheelchair

Both of his femur bones were broken in three places, the growth plates in his knees were shattered, and blood had pooled in his lungs.

Miraculously, Oscar made a full recovery, with Ms Blaxland recounting the harrowing details of his fall for the first time in her new book. Wonder boy.

Although Oscar doesn’t remember the fall or the subsequent recovery, he does remember visiting his preschool and showing the other children his cast.

He said it had been emotional and at times overwhelming to read how his family members had been affected by the accident, especially his father.

“It was just one of those really inexplicable things,” Oscar said.

‘If you look at a toddler’s body shape, the head is quite large and even as an adult it is still the heaviest part of your body.

“They don’t really understand how I didn’t hit the ground first.”

Oscar, with his legs in red, is pictured with his younger sister Priscilla

Oscar said he had been an adventurous child and an “intense” teenager, and joked that he was “definitely” responsible for his parents’ gray hair.

Oscar said his father had struggled with guilt until recently.

“My poor father blamed himself all his life,” he said.

‘Of course he shouldn’t blame himself, it wasn’t his fault. Nevertheless, you come out of these traumatic events and people will inevitably blame themselves.

“He feels like he should have been my protector, he should have prevented this accident and I guess that’s your role as a father, to protect your family.

“So that’s been very difficult for him.”

Oscar believes the sudden fame he gained when he was dubbed the ‘Miracle Boy’ by the media changed his family’s dynamic forever.

Both of Oscar’s thigh bones were broken in three places after the six-storey fall

He now wonders if his sister Priscilla, who is 18 months younger than him, sometimes felt ignored in the whirlwind that followed his accident.

“I mean, I’m standing in front of the cameras and being photographed, filmed and interviewed by reporters who want to hear my story,” he said.

“And Priscilla is just there in the background. SHe’s doing well today, but it’s hard for a child to have to go through this, to feel like you might not be important.

‘Mine sister is very important and very special. She is a wonderful, beautiful person. But as a child you don’t understand the nuances of the context of the situation.’

Oscar recently married his partner Kate and is excited to start his own brood.

He doesn’t think the accident will affect his parenting and believes children should be challenged in the right environment.

Oscar returned to the unit block for the first time this year (photo)

Oscar recently married Kate, and the couple hopes to start a family of their own soon

“I think that’s a good thing and so I’d like to think I would stay true to that. But who know? “I suppose now, as a 31-year-old, I am only just beginning to face the full gravity of the accident,” he said.

‘I don’t really know how it’s going to end. But I do believe that a little adventure is good for children.’

Until then, Oscar plans to make the most of his knees until he inevitably has to have them replaced due to a lack of cartilage after the fall.

“I think I’m very blessed,” he said.

‘I don’t really have any other way to explain it. I feeling normal. I’m just an ordinary boy. I have pretty big knees, but other than that I’m just a normal guy.’