This is very difficult for me, but I shall attempt to tell you about what happened to my eldest brother. As one of eight children and him being the eldest it makes it very hard to tell without wanting to burst into tears! My brother who was a London cabbie and worked very hard. At the beginning of December he started to feel unwell with dizzy spells and buildings and roads jumping and shaking. He had his eyes tested at the hospital as they thought it could be diabetes. Some idiots broke into his cab and smashed the windscreen about 10 days before Christmas. One of his sons said he would take him half way home and his other son would meet them to take him the rest of the way (he lives with his wife on the Essex coast). He said he was feeling unwell and as they pulled into the car park for the second leg of the journey he felt sick, when he got out of the car he collapsed, the emergency services were called and talked his daughter in law through CPR as he had died. She brought him back and he was rushed to hospital in Romford as this was deemed to be the nearest hospital. She told the hospital she thought he may have had a stroke, he was awake and talking by then, he said he felt ok, they did a CT scan and gave him a letter to see his doctor on Monday morning. When he finally reached home he started being sick and collapsed again, now it was around 11pm. Another ambulance came and took him to Colchester hospital where he was put into an induced coma as the brain bleed was so bad. His lungs are working perfectly well, his heart is working, his kidneys are working in fact everything but his brain is working. He has been in hospital now for 6 weeks and his family have been told there is nothing that can be done, the hospital have (with the families permission) stopped feeding him and so he is slowing dying. My sister in law has been amazing throughout all of this and both of her son's and 5 grandsons, now they are watching him die. This should never have happened, he should be with us and his whole family feel cheated. Had the hospital in Romford acted FAST as in all the adverts we might still have him with us.
It's official: Grandparents are good for children
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