Emily O'Reilly

But it turned out to be Kaposi's sarcoma.

And that completely terrified him more than the kidney, more than the heart, more than everything else.

Yeah.

Well, he well, the Kaposi's sarcoma, Brian, he just he just he was terrified it was going to go to his face.

And he insisted on chemo.

I mean, one day when he was getting a transfusion for the sodium thing, he happened to be in a ward where people were having chemo.

And he said to me, I envied them.

So he had four rounds of chemo and then he had a fall because of the sodium issue and the bruise was contraindicated for chemo.

So that had to stop.

And then he was losing vast amounts of weight.

So he was wasting away in front of me and in front of his partner, in front of everybody.

And his illness was entirely siloed.

So he had so many consultants.

He had his kidney consultant in his kidney.

He had his heart consultant for the heart.

He had his HIV consultant, which had actually ended up in a medical cul-de-sac, really.

And he had the electrolyte.

He had the oncologist for the Kaposi's sarcoma.

And Brian was never told he was going to die because each bit was being managed differently.

But collectively, of course, it was going to kill him.