We are proof that miracles do happen, say patients who had life support withdrawn
Such was the force of Carol Brothers’ cardiac arrest, her heart stopped beating for more than 45 minutes, and she was in a coma by the time she had been airlifted to hospital. There, at Bath’s Royal United, she was kept for three days on life support, before consultants told her loved ones to prepare for the worst. ‘We were called in to a family room to say she was basically brain dead and there was nothing they could do,’ recalls her daughter Maxine, 51. ‘She was put on a pathway to die.’ The stricken family — Carol’s husband David, her sister and sons Tony, 53, and Paul, 50...
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