Geoffrey Stuart Midlane

Residing In: Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa
Spouse/Partner: Arlene
Children: daughter Gemma Hope, son Zach
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Geoff (Stuart) was with us at Primary. Our prayers and thoughts are with his family. Gemma Hope, his daughter provided these harrowing details of his passing.

Its still hard to think back on the weeks and circumstances leading up to my Dad's passing, but I will try tell you briefly.

He went in for an aneurysm repair in his abdominal aorta. During this they insert a metal stent through the groin and up though to the aneurysm site in his aorta.

Unfortunately after this operation he was in extreme pain and after an xray was taken, it was noted that the stent migrated upwards and was blocking the blood flow to his kidneys.

They took him to theatre immediately, but unfortunately the kidneys had been blocked and had not received blood for 12 hours, and he was in acute renal failure. He came out of that op on a ventilator, and basically his system was in complete shock. The doctors told us it would be a miracle if he survived 48hours.

Luckily for us he survived another 3 weeks, and after being taken off the ventilator 7 days later, he started to improve, and we all had hope he would be coming home to us.

They moved him to a general ward, and his strength started to increase, when he had a major heart attack, that we later learnt was cause by the emergency op as his blood pressure shot though the roof. The doctors tried to resuscitate him, but to no avail. I believe his body was too drained from all the fighting to survive he did for 3 long and hard weeks.

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Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 8:23 AM
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