Remembering those we've lost

We are grateful to supporters like Affie Panayiotou for giving to the BRT after having lost a loved one. They help ensure that scientists investigating life-threatening conditions have the money available to advance our understanding and hopefully find a cure.

Affie's story

Affie Panayiotou donated to the BRT in memory of her beloved husband Gregory Conrad Bouzyk (pictured), who tragically died last summer at the age of 46 after suffering from a subarachnoid haemorrhage, a subtype of stroke. She managed to raise over £1,100 by arranging a funeral collection and then by holding a car boot sale.

In her own words, Affie describes why she decided to support the BRT:

I shall have to live with the memory of watching the most important person in my life fall into a coma and die two days later with no available help for him. I only hope that part of the work you do will contribute to greater knowledge about haemorrhages. Just perhaps, a way will be found to safely operate on this type of problem so that other men and women will never have to hear, as I did, that their apparently fit and well-loved one is dying and nothing can be done. I can only hope!