Mary Logue

So it was terrifying.

It was absolutely terrifying.

How did he cope with that?

Initially he had put the inserted dye into his brain and that went wrong.

There was an adverse effect to that.

So that left him very ill and he was transferred into ICU in Beaumont and he spent a couple of days there.

Then he had the surgery which the type of tumour that he had was very rare and how they described it was like it was like

a tomato and that something had grown in through.

So the surgery was cut short because it was basically only a biopsy that they did because of the type of tumour.

Had he stayed, had they worked more on him, he would have probably bled out.

So then after that, then we spent six weeks in Beaumont and then we were transferred to Crumlin, our ladies in Crumlin, when he started his chemo there.

And that went on, that started in November, December 2016.

And he continued that, I think it was about February or March, and he became really unwell there.

He was transferred back to Crumlin from Litherkenny and high dependency again there.

And the decision was made then to stop the chemo and to start radiotherapy in St Luke's, which we did do.

And we spent six weeks travelling to St Luke's.

We stayed in one of the houses, the Late Late Show houses in Crumlin.

And you traveled across every day.

So I have to say, I think the radiotherapy was what did him the most good.

It slowed down the growth of the tumor.