No Stone Unturned ~ Robert’s Road to Recovery
Robert on the day he received his Masters Degree in Music
My name is Angela Bolton and I started this blog to tell the story of my husband Robert’s progress after suffering a post-operative cardiac arrest which led to hypoxic brain injury (October 2011).
It’s been 19 months since Robert’s injury and he is now at the Royal Hospital in Donnybrook where he is receiving excellent care.
As his family, it is down to us to provide him with every additional therapy that may possibly help him: Feldenkrais, Kinesiology, massage and homeopathy, and we will use the money raised so far to support his health in this way. When the funds start to run low, I’ll begin fundraising again.
In the meantime, donations can be made by credit card – online: http://bit.ly/QwXoBQ, by phone: 01 884 8020, or you can contact me directly at boltonrob@eircom.net, tel: 087 901 3476.
If you can’t contribute to his rehab fund directly, there are other ways you can help: you could forward a link to this blog and keep an eye on it too, as we’ll be holding a celebrity auction, running a benefit night, and have already started to record a benefit CD amongst other things.
This has been a long year with many struggles and battles, and myself and Robert’s family have fought it on several fronts. Having Robert’s story told was one of our main aims, and some newspaper articles and radio interviews (see below) have helped us to do this. The support we’ve received has been amazing, humbling and encouraging – so many good-hearted people. We have raised almost €12,000 so far and will keep going.
- The Irish Times interview: http://bit.ly/QrIhiO
- The John Murray Show interview on RTE Radio 1: http://bit.ly/SuAouh (the song I sang, Love Me Tender http://bit.ly/QdaMMS); Podcast: http://bit.ly/QwUQHl
- The Southside People interview ~ online article: http://bit.ly/UMevoo or pdf of paper: http://bit.ly/NNiy2u
- The Dublin South Radio 93.9fm interview podcast: http://bit.ly/T97jyA
Robert has made progress over the last fourteen months ~ he has overcome all the trauma presented by the original surgery, the cardiac arrest, a subsequent pneumonia and other infections, and now he’s more alert, more responsive and more ‘present’. Our faith in him and our patience has been rewarded. Now he has been assessed we’re hoping his progress will intensify.
Thank you for reading our story.
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Links to early posts:
- What happened in the beginning… http://bit.ly/LxQJWJ
- How far he’s come since October 2011 http://bit.ly/L2WxIK
- What’s happening now http://bit.ly/L2WH2U
- Things we do to help Robert http://bit.ly/IVqNCt
- The people who have kept us afloat http://bit.ly/LlgsoV
- Music ~ Bob’s first love http://bit.ly/PolM9q
- Our California Years http://bit.ly/JXG7Ps
About
Bob playing his Fender Precision Bass with the Two-Tec bridge (which means it weighs a ton), San Diego (Brad Kirkbride on drums)
Thanks for helping out, excellent info .
Hello. impressive job. I did not anticipate this. This is often a great story.
Thanks!
We know exactly how you feel because we have been there and we are still going through hell. We have followed the same path even down to visiting the Royal in Putney and we have got the same answers from the HSE. Our son , also named Robert, survived SADS, a miracle in itself, but surviving our health system could require a bigger feat. From reading your story, Robert Bolton couldn’t have a stronger person working for him and we will gladly offer any help we can from our experience.
Hello just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The words in your article seem
to be running off the screen in Opera. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with web browser compatibility but I figured I’d post
to let you know. The layout look great though!
Hope you get the issue solved soon. Thanks
Hi Eloise, must be a browser compatibility issue ~ looks fine when I view it. Thank you for reading the blog, though, and I hope it was of interest to you. Began as a way to reach out to people but became a labour of love, especially on the nights when I was out of my mind with fear and despair wondering how in the hell people get through times like this. This is how they do it – by telling their story and trying to find every single way to help the one they love: it’s what’s kept me from running out of hope. People who’ve heard the radio interview or read the articles in the Irish Times or Southside People have been so kind and full of help and advice. It’s humbling and inspiring, and kept me going for 15 months. Robert is still with us and will continue to be as long as I have any say in the matter. God bless and take care. Angela
Hello there! Would you mind if I share your blog with my zynga group?
There’s a lot of folks that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Thanks
Thank you, I’d be happy for you to share it with whoever you feel would be interested. I appreciate your asking. Best regards, Angela