Brain injury boxer

“Super-featherweight boxer John Cooney, 28, has died after his defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast last Saturday.

The Irish boxer suffered an intracranial haemorrhage and had surgery to relieve pressure on his brain following the bout at the Ulster Hall.”

I read this in the news this morning and it struck home. I had a head injury. I had an intracranial haemorrhage. I had surgery to relieve the pressure.

My parents and Paul were told that I may never wake from my induced coma and that if I did then I would likely live the rest of my days in a hospice staring at the walls. It goes to show me that what happened to John Cooney could have been the same for me.