Mick and Natalie - Interview 30  

Mick and Natalie - Interview 30

Age at Interview: 53 and 48
Background: Mick and Natalie are married and have a son. Mick is a fork lift truck driver and Natalie is a school kitchen assistant. Ethnic background / nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Mick and Natalie’s son sadly died of a brain haemorrhage in 2004, aged 8. He gave the gift of life to three people, who received a kidney, liver and heart valves.

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Mick and Natalie's son was transferred to a second hospital, where doctors told them that he’d had a brain haemorrhage. He was given surgery but, sadly, never came round.

 



Mick: They sort of whisked, he had like a fit [seizure], and then they whisked him off. And then they came back and told us he’d have to go to the [hospital name].

Did they say what they thought could be wrong?

Mick: Well we,

Natalie: No not at [the first hospital] they didn’t, did they?

Mick: No, no. They wasn’t sure at [the first hospital]. They said that he’d have to go to [the second hospital] for the, because what it was like, he’d got like a blood clot on the back of his head.

Natalie: It was a brain haemorrhage, wasn’t it? They told us. Obviously they took him to [the second hospital], scanned him and said they did have to operate. And they never, this sort of, he went through the operation but they said he’d never come around again. So….

Natalie: It was already too late. The damage had sort of been done and they said he’s not going to come round. So they just sort of kept him, this was like, they said we could stay overnight didn’t we?

Mick: Yeah.

Natalie: And they suggested that we call all the relatives and everything. And then they said, in the morning they said, “You know it’s not going to, he’s not going to get any better. He’s not going to come round.”
 

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