![]() He was in intensive care and because of COVID, no one could visit. There was a huge sense of relief and then over the days that followed, we waited for my brother to wake up to see if he was ok. ![]() We went home and waited and 10 hours later, at 3:30 in the morning my sister in law was phoned to say that the operation had been more complicated than thought - the surgeon said it was a right mess in there (presumably a medical term) - but my brother had got through it. They inspired confidence, they were calm, but they stressed that it would be a big operation lasting 5 hours. The doctors spoke to his wife and me, and told us about the operation to repair the ruptured artery…and a valve in his heart…and whatever else they needed to do. And the shock of thinking what might happen to him…really was a shock. He is godfather to our boys and I was godfather to his baby daughter at her christening which took place virtually just five days before this all happened. He did manage to speak and he said 6 words to me from his trolley: Look after … and then he was wheeled away, off to the operating theatre - and at that point I really did wonder if I would ever see him again.Īs siblings should be, my brother and I are very close. We waited for what seemed like ages, but wasn’t, in a corridor, and at 5:30pm my brother was wheeled past to have this major operation. Minutes later, he was put in an ambulance and we drove up to London. ![]() I drove round the M25 to the hospital, where the doctor explained that a major artery from my brother’s heart had ruptured and that he needed to have an operation straight away at a London hospital, but there was a chance that he could die. The doctor had told her that he was in a critical condition and that it was important that we went to the hospital straight away. By this time, my brother had been taken to hospital. Then, sometime later, when I had finished my Friday fish and chips, my sister in law phoned again, really quite worried. However, I did what I thought was most appropriate which was to go and eat lunch in the Dining Hall. He got married just over a year ago and he and his wife have a baby who is just a few months old. My brother is a couple of years younger than me, fitter than me and has never had any health problems. I was really shocked and surprised to hear this. ![]() For me, the last Friday before we broke up was a relatively ordinary day and then, at lunchtime, my sister-in-law, my brother’s wife, phoned me to say that my brother had collapsed whilst taking his car for a service. ![]()
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