With Mary and her husband Tom are the quadruplets, from left, Michael, Samantha, Amanda and Nicola. "My heart stopping beating and I stopped breathing,” she said of her ordeal that doctors initially feared would leave her brain dead. I had to be incubated (to breathe) and was then transferred to the Mater Hospital for six weeks,” she said. "The worst thing was coming out of the coma and realising how close I came to not being there for the children or my husband Tom,” she said. And she is now urging others to support the DNI this weekend when it holds its ‘Run as One’ fundraiser on Saturday and Sunday.

Source: Irish Independent March 01, 2021 16:35 UTC