Music helps BBC host recover from brain op
CLEMENCY Burton-Hill has revealed that music “is part of my recovery” from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
The BBC’s classical music host and violinist, 39, is relearning how to walk and talk after January’s emergency op.
Clemency, unconscious for 17 days, made a choice whether to give up or live, saying: “Music is the opposite of despair.
“Sometimes, it is the thing that gives me solace. And sometimes it’s the thing that helps me to get up and fight – and to live. It is the ultimate motivation.”
The mother of two had been in New York as creative director of classical station WQXR when she collapsed.
Doctors had to remove half her skull at Mount Sinai West hospital in Manhattan to accommodate the brain swelling.