Chris Gorman
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My husband died on the 28 June
2007. He was a healthy, fit 29 year old
man.
He had been training all year
for the London to Brighton bike ride. He had been cycling 30 miles every
weekend and there had never been a problem.
He left my house on the
Saturday night before the bike ride, to stay with a friend who lived in
London (1 mile away from the start line). He ate his dinner and had a
fairly early night, he got up in the morning, had his breakfast and left
around 5.30am. He rode the 1 mile to the start line.
The next think I knew was
when the police knocked on my door at around 7am and asked to come in. I
asked if I needed to sit down and was told "yes".
I sat down with my 2 year old
son on my lap and was told that there had been an "incident" and I needed to
contact St George's Hospital in Tooting, London.
It turns out that at the
start line of the race, it was witnessed that my husband slumped on his bike
and hit the ground. As it was at the start line there were paramedics
around, so they got to him quite quickly. It wasn't until they turned him
over that they realised that his heart had stopped and he wasn't breathing.
The paramedics started resuscitation and had to shock him to get the heart
started again.
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However, this took about 20 minutes so as you can
imagine all sorts of complications followed. I wont go into all the gory
details as they are very upsetting.
We have been told by the
pathologist who did the autopsy that they can find NO REASON as to why
his heart would have stopped. The hospital informed us of something called "The
Young Man's Cot Death". I have now had to sign my husband's heart over to
medical research and an Inquest has been opened to assess what the cause of
death was. I'm not holding my breath for an answer!!!!!
 I don't understand how this could
have happened, my husband Chris Gorman was only 29 and fit and healthy. He
smoked a while ago but we had both quit on the arrival of our son. He was not a
heavy drinker and was generally in good health.
I have
been told that this could have happened at any time and I could easily have
woken up to find him dead next to me in the bed.
I came across this site whilst
trying to do some research on "The Young Man's Cot Death". I don't understand
any of what has happened and it is making the grieving process twice as hard as
it already is.
Many friends and family are all
wanting answers, as Chris was an enthusiastic, artistic, generous, caring,
loving, happy man who loved his family above anything else in the world.
How can this happen to a good
man, when there are people out there wasting their lives - it just doesn't make
any sense.
I would like more information on
this subject as I'm beginning to see that this is happening to young men
FAR TOO OFTEN.
More people need to be aware of
this and maybe more research can be done to help identify what causes this and
how it can be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Louise Gorman
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