“He loves it, he loves his customers and having the craic with them.” They have kept the doors of the butchers open while maintaining a constant presence at his bedside.īrian opened up his butchers shop in Ardnacrusha seven years ago, and like most self-employed business people he has worked “six days a week without a holiday”, said Chrissie. So he is a lucky man.”Ĭhrissie, her husband Paddy, and their children Louise, Jennifer, Barry, Linda, have put their shoulders to the wheel in support of Brian. He had about two hours to live, if he had been two hours late getting to the hospital, he was gone. When the surgeon said he had a 40 per cent chance of survival, I looked at the girls and we burst out crying. “He has had four surgeries and he may have to go for skin grafts. He was sedated and on a ventilator from Sunday to the following Saturday in ICU, and then they took out ventilator and he was transferred into HDU, so he has a long road to go yet.” “The surgeon met us and brought us into a room to tell us about surgery and said Brian had a 40 per cent chance of survival. I just want to be able to bring him home.”īecoming emotional, she described how being told her son had only two hours to live left her shellshocked. Praising the doctors and nurses, and the quick-thinking actions of her daughter Louise – a qualified nurse who had convinced Mr Treacy to go to hospital after she suspected he was suffering from sepsis – Chrissie added: “Brian is alive, that’s all I keep saying to myself.

“Every so often I break down and I say to myself, ‘is this really happening?’ Then I call myself to one side and I say, ‘we still have him, he is still alive’, said Brian’s mother Chrissie Treacy.

The family has set up a GoFundMe page online to help support Brian through his medical and business costs. Mr Treacy’s devastated family have been keeping a vigil by his hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) followed by a stay in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at UHL, as well as helping to keep the doors of his business open to his loyal customers. THE FAMILY of a butcher who operates close to the Limerick Clare border, and who was placed on a life support machine in hospital after developing a severe infection last week, has sought donations to help him back on his feet.īrian Treacy, of Clonlara, County Clare, was hospitalised last week after being given two hours to live after he arrived at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) having contracted sepsis.īrian (46), who owns and runs an artisan butcher shop near the famous Ardnacrusha electrical power station, has undergone several surgeries and will require long-term physiotherapy to be able to return behind the counter of his beloved butchers.

His family have set up a Go Fund Me page to aid with his medical and business costs.

Artisan Butcher Brian Treacy, Ardnacrusha, Co Clare who is fighting for his life in hospital this week after developing sepsis.

Go fund me page bring my brother home