Talk:Ron Dixon (Brookside)

Death of Ron's son Tony
In the episode aired on 1 December 1993, it was reported that Ron was ecstatic by what he saw at the hospital (obviously when visting Tony), only for his elation to soon turn to devastation. If my memory serves me correctly, didn't Tony briefly regain consciousness at least to some extent - Ron was even speaking of his hopes that Tony would be out of hospital by Christmas just over 3 weeks later. But I also seem to remember that very soon afterwards the doctor told Ron that Tony's condition was not as good as it had appeared. This seems to fit in well with the title of this episode "No Chance At All".

And indeed by the episode aired on 12 January 1994, Tony was clearly still in a coma to the extent that the doctor felt there was no chance of him ever awakening. In the next episode, Ron seemed to accept this and felt that it would be better for Tony to die. On 19 January, he even bade farewell to his son in hospital and decided it would be the last time he would see him (although I have no recollection of whether he visited him again). Around this time or possibly shortly after, however, he did give former wife DD (Tony's mother) permission to take Tony to Lourdes in hope of finding a miracle cure. Tony finally died (off screen if I remember accurately) on the episode aired on 7 February 1994, and Ron received the news from DD.

Can anyone shed any full light on what happened. With the exception of 14 January 1994 episode and a few brief clips of the crash which occured in the episode occured on either 3 or 5 November 1993, there are currently no episodes of the crucial time (ie the accident up to Tony's death) to verify what exactly happened during the final 3 months of his life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.115.38 (talk) 20:14, 25 April 2013 (UTC)