'I didn't even know people could die from asthma in this day and age'

Karen and Robert Bush talk about their son, Gary, who died aged 35 after having an asthma attack

Transcript

00:00 on the Monday obviously you just hope everything's going to be all right, you just carry on and you

00:06 think everything's going to be all right. We obviously all the family came in, we were all

00:16 there and literally it wasn't until the Thursday that they said they had to do some tests on him.

00:27 That's when they come and told us that he was basically brain dead and there wasn't anything

00:39 they could do. Well obviously he's our son and but he was kind, very very caring. He was a

00:51 compassionate type like. Yeah he was very very caring to us and you know my mum and dad wasn't

01:00 he, do anything for him. To be quite honest we never actually heard of MASH and if I'd have known

01:08 it to been there I would have took Gary there a long time before you know as a child.

01:17 Because we've put people onto them, you know my son's the manager of a football team and he's

01:22 got a little boy there, reminds us of Gary, he's got asthma and he's been to see the asthma nurse

01:29 who's there and she's very good. It helps people with asthma you know if it can help people that's

01:41 what we wanted to do because although I didn't personally believe that in this day and age you

01:50 could die from asthma.