- Tests revealed
- blood clots in both lungs.
- 2009. He was a landscape gardener
- working for the Council
- when he fell seriously ill.
- He was discovered to have
- deep vein thromboses
- in his legs.
- Hughes syndrome.
- Often referred to as ‘sticky blood’.
- A life-threatening condition.
- His big toe was amputated.
- Horrendous headaches,
- frequent bouts of illness.
- He couldn’t do any hard physical work.
- He was put on something to thin his blood.
- Would be on it
- for the rest of his life.
- Still
- he hoped his condition would stabilise enough
- to let him get a job
- or go to college.
- He had savings.
- He and his fiancee
- had just taken out a mortgage on a new flat;
- he hoped to spend the money
- making it right.
- He had been signed off as unfit to work by his doctor,
- but received no money from the agency
- for 10 weeks.
- An ongoing battle.
- One morning
- after she got up
- his fiancee
- discovered his body.
[Daily Record, 08/05/2013, Benefits row dad takes his own life and is found dead in his flat by his fiancee]