Mom of 4 suffers a stroke and is hospitalized – 5 days later her husband wants a divorce
Alla genomgår vi någon gång i livet en eller flera jobbiga perioder. Medan många återhämtar sig snabbt, blir det för vissa betydligt jobbigare.
Det var i mars 2015 som den då 37-åriga fyrabarnsmamman Riona Kelly drabbades av inte bara en tragedi, utan två. Den ena drabbade hennes hjärta och den andra hennes ben.
Riona hade fått en stroke och blev förlamad från midjan och ned. Men det var inte läkarnas besked som var det värsta.
We all go through difficult periods at some point in our lives. While many recover quickly, some have a very long road ahead of them.
In 2015, this 37-year-old mother of four, Riona Kelly, suffered not just one tragedy but two. While one hurt her physically the other caused mental agony.
First, Riona suffered a stroke and was paralyzed from the waist down – but it wasn’t the doctors’ diagnosis that broke her completely…
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Eight years ago, Riona Kelly suffered a devastating spinal stroke. The teacher and mother of four faced her most important challenge in life – doctors warned her and said she might never walk again.
”I’d had a car accident 18 months previous and they said that could have caused problems in my spine,” Riona told The Mirror in 2017.
But the determined mother was motivated to return to work and turn her life around to be there for her kids. Sadly, she was abandoned by the man who was supposed to help her when she needed it the most. After just five days in the hospital, her husband of 14 years said he wanted a divorce.
Paralyzed and devastated, Riona lay in her hospital bed and wanted to give up. How would she raise her four children now that she could no longer care for herself?
”After my husband left me in hospital, my friend, Sarah, became my next of kin, it was her and the children that supported me during my recovery. Looking back I was miserable in my marriage, but we had built a life together and had responsibilities,” Riona told The Mirror.
However, her ex-husband Richard claims he wanted to separate the day before Riona had her stroke and became paralyzed from the neck down.
The recovery process was a slow one, and although the doctors thought that Riona would regain movement in her legs, no one knew for sure.
But despite being close to giving up several times, she continued to fight.