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Would Your Love Be As Strong As This?

When Sue's husband suffered a brain injury that left him unable to talk or feed himself, friends urged her to walk away - instead she says: I love him more than ever By Tessa Cunningham for the Daily Mail Published: 22:32, 13 June 2012 | Updated: 11:36, 14 June 2012 e-mail 58 View comments Carefully squeezing a blob of paste on to the electric toothbrush, Sue Organ tenderly bends down. ‘Open wide, darling,’ she urges. As the toothbrush starts its familiar whirring, Sue is met with a beatific smile. Two huge periwinkle blue eyes lock on to hers. A soft hand reaches out for her. It’s a morning ritual played out in millions of homes between a mother and child. But Charles isn’t Sue’s son. He is her husband. And he needs her help in ways most of us would find almost impossible to imagine. Charles - a 6ft 2in ex-amateur rugby player - had an accident while competing in a charity bike ride in June 2007. Subsequent complications with his hospital treatment have left him with catastrophic

To The Labour Taffia In Wales

An old friend was given bad news by his GP two years ago: he was exhibiting symptoms consistent with bowel cancer and therefore needed immediate treatment by a specialist. The friend, a retired man in his 60s whom I have known since childhood (and who has asked me to call him Roger so as to protect his identity), duly received an ‘urgent referral’ to visit consultants at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, a market town in Monmouthshire, South Wales, near to where we both live. Bowel cancer is a grim and life-threatening disease that kills 16,000 people in Britain each year. But if treated early, chances of survival are relatively high. More than 93 per cent of patients diagnosed in its earliest stage remain alive five years later. For those diagnosed later, however, the figure falls to 77 and then 48 per cent. Very late diagnosis means a survival rate of just 6 per cent. Ed Miliband says only Labour - under him as prime minister - can be ‘trusted’ to safeguard the British NHS With th