Sudoku
FUN
To solve the puzzles, each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. The numbers in the highlighted squares will give you the answers.
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STILL
Just for
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Kathleen Maher, 47, from Jarrow, passed out, then woke up to a shock…
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M
y mum Madge, 88, sat in her armchair, gripped by her favourite game show, while I slumped on the sofa feeling sick. Bless her, I thought. It was February 2018, and even though she was nearly 90 and in the grip of dementia, Mum was still lovely company to have. As for me, I’d been laid up with a virus for a few days. The doctor said a bug had been going around, and I’d had to take time off from my secretarial job. Still, it’d been nice to spend time with Mum. Me and my brother Anthony, 54, were her live-in carers. She’d spent most of her life looking after me and my six brothers, so now it was the least we could do. We’d take her out for the day and treat her to fish and chips by
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I’d been in a coma for a month
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My family got me through it
Answers on page 61
WORDS BY HARRIET ROSE-GALE IMAGES: SWNS
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the coast. Just doing all the things she enjoyed doing. Now, yawning, I pulled myself up and went to make Mum’s bed. Only, as I plumped up her pillows, I felt light-headed. Then suddenly, I crashed to the floor with a thud. The next thing I knew, I was wakin up at Sunderland Royal Hospital, the faces of all my brothers staring down at me. I tried to speak, but no sound came out of my mouth. I couldn’t even raise my head. ‘It’s OK,’ my brother Michael, 63, soothed. But it wasn’t OK. Not only was I in hospital, but a whole month had gone by while I’d been in an induced coma. Michael explained to me that I’d suffered sepsis, pneumonia and had multiple organ failure. It wasn’t just
