A former church minister who battled alcohol addiction after being left suicidal during lockdown has praised a charity which helped him turn his life around.
08.11.2022 - 07:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A former nurse has been left paralysed after hitting her head off of the toilet in a fall at her home.
Marie Ogilvie, 54, from Perth, can't move her arms, hands, and legs and is unable to breathe for herself after the accident on August 14.
She had gone to the bathroom at around 10.30pm after complaining of feeling unwell to her husband Jim. But 10 minutes later Jim heard a thud and rushed to find his wife of more than 30 years on the floor, bleeding from the nose.
"When I first saw her lying on the bathroom floor I thought she was a goner," Jim told the Record. "I tried to stem the flow of the blood but I was panicking. She started to come around and told me to ring an ambulance.
"She remembers sitting on the toilet, leaning on the water basin, and then she must have fallen off the seat and banged her head.
"While we were waiting for an ambulance, she became aware she couldn't move. She was just so helpless."
Marie was unable to breathe by herself and spent six weeks on a ventilator after the accident, before being fitted with a tracheostomy tube. She then had spinal surgery to stabilise the damage to her neck at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on Aug 15. The next day she was blue-lighted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's spinal injury unit in Glasgow to receive specialist care.
Doctors then told Marie and Jim that she is tetraplegic, which means she is unable to voluntarily move her arms, hands and legs.
"Marie was able to speak for the first time last week. I was in tears at the side of her bed after not hearing her voice for what felt so long," Jim said. "I've been by her side the whole time, and it's costing a fortune living in a hotel for all this time but I want to be here every step of the journey.
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