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THE PARENTS OF a 21-year-old who suffered a severe stroke during a GAA match in Kildare last year are appealing for the public’s assistance to raise funds for their son’s treatment.
Adam Burke spent two weeks in a coma and doctors told his family he may never walk, talk, or recognise them again.
However, he is now doing all of those things but needs more treatment to reclaim his full speech and mobility.
Speaking on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio 1, Adam’s father Willie described seeing his son being tackled on the pitch last July. He said he knew that something was seriously wrong when he saw Adam come out in the second half.
Our eyes met and I could just tell something was wrong, he was grey in the face.
“I don’t know why I was tracking him, suddenly I just saw him out in midfield and he put his hand up to his head and then just fell gentle as you like onto the ground.
I jumped over the fence and ran into him and took him by the hand and I could tell he was in terrible trouble. We were telling him that we were here and that everything would be alright.
Adam’s mother Catherine told Cormac O’hEadhra on the RTÉ show that doctors at the hospital immediately told her that Adam was critical.
We were given the news at that point that he had a 20% chance of living and if he did live that the chances of us communicating, walking, talking or interacting with us were very slim.
Adam’s brain was swelling and his skull-cap had to be removed in a lifesaving operation to allow his brain to swell naturally.
Catherine said, “He was in a coma for two weeks. He was very sick when he came out of the coma.
He gave us great hope after three days. He put his big left hand out around our necks and gave us a hug.
Adam now needs therapy to reclaim his full speech and mobility but it can cost around €1 million.
Willie says that his son’s brain may be able to find new paths and ways of learning because he’s a growing young man.
“The therapy he needs is very expensive. He’s a growing young man, his brain is able to find new paths and new ways and that’s what the funding is really for.”
A GoFundMe page has been set up and over €10,000 has been donated so far. The couple described how the local community is helping to organise fundraising events for their son.
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Mcdonalds is always there for me too. Unfortunately for my waist!!
I hate McDonald’s and yet I find their double cheeseburgers annoyingly addictive…
#Jimmy
Mar tá siad lá le siúrce agus cimicí chun go mbeidh tú tugtha dóibh.
Gaeltan,
Perché si rispondere a un commento in una lingua diversa ? è rozzo
Is maith liom sceallóga agus ispíní.
Eh?
Breaking News: James Franco worked in McDonald’s. Bad day at the office Journal?
I know the feeling James, mc Donald’s has often taken me out of a hole too.
Ironic, mackers has taken the hole out of me more than once.
Silly boy.
To be fair it reads a bit like james got a few dollars for reading that script!
McDonald’s where even the salads are unhealthy.
Pure manure!!
Terrible actor, brutal Director and an even worse artist… one guy that should have never given up the day job…
What have you done lately?
Let’s put this to bed once and for all…Big Mac or Whopper??
Neither.
Big Mac on its own or a Whopper if you whack a few BK onion rings into it! Now thats me darza!!
The double cheeseburger for €2
Often emptied my hole!!
Caroline did?
She always was dirty.
Ask the lads…..
Yeah, Cal is well known………
A “full Irish breakfast” is far more dangerous to your waistline than anything served up in McDonalds.
Anyway,why pick on McDonalds?
ALL restaurants serve up fattening foods.
Ever wondered what’s in that “Nouveau Cusine” they serve up in upmarket restaurants?
At least McDonalds is spotlessly clean and hygienic.
Unlike a lot of other “greasy spoon” dumps you see on the high street.
And a LOT cleaner and hygienic than most Irish kitchens I have seen.
McDonalds sells happiness. I’d have it every other month but never as my main meal of the day.
Large chicken legend meal, salsa, no bacon, with coke. That’s the one and only meal I eat at McDonalds and I’d happily eat it everyday if I could get away with it. Add chicken nuggets and its €10 exactly.
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