Alf Feared For Life
Newtown winger Kieran Brophy has revealed he feared for his life before being diagnosed with Bird Flue. The former Mayo man contracted the parasitic virus while shifting some girl in Galway and has been in hospital for the past three weeks. Alf actually featured in 2:1 win over Arra Rovers away, but his condition declined rapidly the day after the game leaving the winger with blurred vision and memory loss. The 21-year-old recovering in hospital, but while he is slowly regaining his strength he is still some way off making his return to Premiership action. "It scares me now just talking about what I went through - it was the worst experience of my life," revealed Alf to the Limerick Post. "When you're lying in bed in pain, paralysed down one side and not knowing what's wrong, all kinds of thoughts run through your head. I thought I was going to die. "I played in a lot of pain but I thought it was just a normal flu virus because there was a lot of it about at the time, by the Sunday morning I was in a bad way. "As I'd lost my sense of taste, I'd stopped eating and began losing my memory, which really scared me. It was at this point that I demanded the club sent me for a blood test and within 45 minutes of the results, I was rushed into hospital. "If I hadn't got to hospital when I did, I dread to think what might have happened. "Everything I do has left me short of breath. Even if I tried to jog to the other side of the room I would be breathless, but this past week I've started to get much stronger. "Having come so close to losing everything, it's made me appreciate my friends and family more except Chinky of course. It wasn't my time to go and that has made me so determined to make the most of my career and life now." .
Alf drunk in Mayo