Tony Nicklinson's widow: 'I've just started to look around me'

Written By Unknown on Sunday, 30 December 2012 | 05:19

According to many of those who humour it, locked-in syndrome is “the closest thing to being buried alive”.

When Tony Nicklinson suffered a large brain-stem cadence in his hotel room in Athens on 22 Jun 2005, a ardent diver woke to find his physique lifeless: his outspoken cords paralysed, his limbs unresponsive. But his mind was entirely alert.

For a 51-year-old operative and rugby fanatic, described lovingly by his widow as an “argumentative, ungainly alpha masculine who was always upsetting someone or fighting with someone”, a life his doctors had salvaged was simply not value living.

“The genuine Tony died 7 years ago,” Jane Nicklinson says, wrapped adult opposite a chill of a damaged heating complement in her tiny bungalow in Wiltshire. “He was indignant in

Read full article: http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-told-boss-she-was-in-the-dark-on-loan-20121122-29tay.html


Source:
http://www.news.ezonearticle.com/2012/12/30/tony-nicklinsons-widow-ive-just-started-to-look-around-me/

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