I absolutely detested him and if he came on tv I’d have to turn over quickly to stop myself spitting at the screen but on Saturday 11th April 2015 Roberto Martinez brought his Everton team to the Liberty Stadium to play the mighty Swans in a Premier League fixture.
We weren’t there,we were sat by Amy’s bed in ITU in Morriston Hospital where she was critically ill but stable with Sepsis,she’d been unconscious all week and had gone down to just over two stone in weight.
On the following Monday the sister in charge of ITU came to us and asked if Mike McCabe the consultant from A&E could come and speak to us.
My wife and I immediately wanted to know what was wrong as we thought it was going to be devastating news but the ward sister said she didn’t know.
Later that morning the door opened and Mr McCabe walked in,I recognised him from the local paper and I’d seen him at the Liberty,he spoke to the ward sister and she pointed over to us.
He walked over and introduced himself and asked about Amy and said he’d looked at her notes and all the signs were looking positive,he was very comforting and reassuring.
Then he said “anyway the reason I’m here is because my secretary has taken a phone call from Roberto Martinez’s secretary this morning and Roberto and Richard Evans noticed you guys weren’t at the match on Saturday and they’d been told the reason why and they would like to know how Amy is doing?”
I just started crying.
Then he asked for permission for his secretary to phone Everton back and pass on the information.
He shook our hands,said everything will be ok and left.
Don’t be too bitter guys it’s only football.
