I was reading Beano Cook’s autobiography today for the third time, and had reached the part where he laments the fact that in his view there are no more great sportswriters because the business people who run things want controversy, not great stories
I wish he were still alive to read this. It’s too long and could have used a touch of editing, but I think in part the author deliberately made it long to reinforce the 39 years this brave and incredible woman devoted to single-handedly caring for her comatose husband, a Center Back for Lyon and on the French National Team in the 1970s, who never woke up after botched “routine” surgery on a foot. And, it is beautifully written, like Dan Jenkins or Frank Deford at their best.
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As an aside, my uncle Harold was a general surgeon who gave me one piece of medical advice which I have scrupulously followed: There is no such thing as routine surgery, so do not under any circumstances have elective surgery.
I wish he were still alive to read this. It’s too long and could have used a touch of editing, but I think in part the author deliberately made it long to reinforce the 39 years this brave and incredible woman devoted to single-handedly caring for her comatose husband, a Center Back for Lyon and on the French National Team in the 1970s, who never woke up after botched “routine” surgery on a foot. And, it is beautifully written, like Dan Jenkins or Frank Deford at their best.
An unbreakable love: The soccer star in a 39-year coma and the wife who never left his side
When a routine surgery left Jean-Pierre Adams in a coma four decades ago, his wife Bernadette refused to let go. This is their story.
As an aside, my uncle Harold was a general surgeon who gave me one piece of medical advice which I have scrupulously followed: There is no such thing as routine surgery, so do not under any circumstances have elective surgery.
