Saturday, 7 May 2011

Seve Ballesteros - RIP

Jo and I awoke to the very sad news that Seve Ballesteros died in the early hours of this morning after a protracted battle with cancer of the brain.

Seve collapsed at Barcelona airport just two months after Jo's unsuccessful operation and, even though his condition was different from Jo's subarachnoid haemorrhage the part of the brain affected and the successive operations Seve underwent were sufficiently similar for us to feel empathy with someone we both already admired as a someone who, as Jo said this morning, "made a game of golf enjoyable to watch."

As BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss said, "When Seve was in a good mood the world was happy. I will always remember that smile."

We will always remember you too Seve. RIP
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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.