Proud daughter tells how dad vowed to live
A Goldfields woman has told the moving story of seeing her father near death before he recovered from stroke to be chosen as a torch bearer for the 2012 London Olympics.
Sarah Prowse, who recently moved to Kalgoorlie-Boulder, said the last time she saw her father he was in a hospital bed battling viruses and pneumonia after suffering a stroke on a plane leaving from Perth in February last year.
Ms Prowse’s father, Eddie Pleban, will be one of the lucky few to carry the Olympic torch in July before returning to visit his daughter in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in September.
“One of the messages Dad says is that there is life after stroke; get out there and carry on,” she said.
“It is not the same life, but for my Dad in some ways it is a better life. With family and friends, everyone is so much closer, everyone rallied around them and surrounded them with love.”
Mr Pleban is a resident in Norwich in the United Kingdom and was visiting his daughter in Perth before he became ill on the flight home.
