A ‘CARING, wonderful mother’ died after she suffered a fall in her Wokingham home last year.
Yvonne Ellis, 62, died after suffering a number of brain haemorrhages following the fall on October 9 last year.
Ms Ellis, who lived alone but had two grown-up sons, had recently been diagnosed with enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma and had been due to start chemotherapy when she fell and hit her head at her home in De Vitre Green.
She managed to telephone her son, Jonathan, who came round to check on her and put her to bed. Her son stayed with her that night, checking on her condition. The following morning, he found her in bed, confused and incontinent, and called an ambulance.
Ms Ellis, who was an occupational therapist, was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital where CT scans revealed several skull fractures and bleeding on her brain. As her condition deteriorated, she was intubated, ventilated and sedated before being moved to the intensive care unit where she passed away on October 14.
At the inquest into her death at Reading Town Hall on Tuesday, February 28, the coroner Alison McCormick said that while the lymphoma had been causing Ms Ellis health problems, the fall and subsequent bleeds on the brain led to her death.
She recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Her sons Jonathan and Kieran Ellis paid tribute to their mother after the hearing, saying she was a “caring, wonderful mum, who was taken far too soon, and is missed every day.”
