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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we've had some good news. Do you remember Sue Martin, whose husband Mal was in hospital |
| 0:12.3 | on a ventilator and was very ill and she was told by the hospital staff that he probably |
| 0:18.2 | had a 0% chance of surviving? Well, Sue gave an interview to the today |
| 0:23.5 | programme on Radio 4 to say that 61 days later Mal is getting better. Everybody in the hospital |
| 0:33.1 | have been saying to him they did not expect him to survive. You know, we were told he was |
| 0:37.6 | slipping away that he was as close to death as anybody that they'd seen that then, you know, |
| 0:43.4 | managed to survive. And he now says he was aware that he was slipping away and the fact that, |
| 0:51.0 | you know, we were, we actually had discussions the children and I about a potential funeral and |
| 0:56.2 | whether we would go ahead with that and to think that we were at that stage and that it was, |
| 1:01.5 | it was almost so hopeless and to now talk about him coming home, well, we just, we just can't |
| 1:07.6 | believe it. We're just so incredibly grateful. It's a gradual process to come out of that coma. |
| 1:15.0 | Were you able to be there or did you only get to see him yourself, you know, once he was fully |
| 1:22.5 | out of it? Yeah, we weren't able to be there, you know, I think like like all hospitals there, |
| 1:29.0 | there were restrictions on visiting for obvious reasons. We were able to face time, |
| 1:35.1 | but in the early days, it was actually too distressing to see him just sort of lie in their |
| 1:41.0 | lifeless and, you know, and obviously unresponsive was was really distressing. So we actually waited |
| 1:47.7 | until a little bit later on until he was fully awake, which took a long, long time, but it was |
| 1:53.3 | a one-way conversation because he wasn't able to speak at that point, but he was, he was so weak |
| 1:58.8 | that all he could do was blink or perhaps raise an eyebrow or nod. He couldn't even move his |
| 2:06.4 | arms or his hands or his head or anything in the beginning. He was so weak. He had so much muscle |
| 2:11.4 | wastage from being on a ventilator for so long. Is he able to talk to you fairly normally now? |
| 2:17.9 | Yes, yeah. He is, every time we see him now, it is more like him. He's just a very thinner, |
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