"When it started to get dark, I became terrified, shaking, and checking all the doors were locked. Tighe says hearing of Daniel's experience, and that of a local Perth woman who also got in touch, made a big difference in her ability to cope. MAY A SUPPLEMENT PREPARED BY MEDIAPLANET CHALLENGES “A ground breaking research project “Hopefully this is a demonstration that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. She grew up and was educated in Sydney, and completed a Bachelor of Arts in communications and psychology at Macquarie University. "I think it's to do with being able to grasp facts that you would have otherwise have been able to grasp very quickly — remembering names, dates locations and things like that, when you're trying to remember something feeling that it's just on the edge of your memory that you can't quite grasp," says Daniel. 2020 had kicked off on a high note for Karen Tighe. Karen Tighe, trustee at St Luke’s, blogs about living with a terminal illness, attitude and perspective. for people with mental illness Attending a Carers Conference held in Perth in 2012, I heard the ABC sports presenter and broadcaster, Karen Tighe, share her story about being a carer. Throughout her recovery, she's battled a legacy of difficulties, including intense anxiety, daily nausea, hair loss and an inability to remember the names of top sportsmen and women – even those of the Australian Prime Minister and West Australian Premier that once rolled off her tongue with ease. "So, I tried to shed some light on how that path to recovery might evolve and to try to explain some of the feelings that Karen might be having. During the early, dangerous days, as her brain swelled inside her head, Tighe couldn't even recognise her husband, fellow broadcaster Glenn Mitchell, and 14-year-old son James, and it was feared she may not survive. "I would drive my son to school and then I was just too scared to go back home so I'd drive around or go to a cafe where there were people. She hopes to be back on air by October next year. But this year she's sidelined, slowly recovering from life-threatening inflammation of the brain that struck her down in early March. "When you go through something like this, it shocks you so much and it's made me think, you know, we're not all going to live forever," says Tighe. Karen Tighe is a Trustee at St Luke's Hospice in Harrow and Brent. She has written a book called, I Felt a Right One, which is about her battle with breast cancer. -drawing, painting photography, printmaking and writing. I was scared that somebody might break into the house. We are here to help! ... Karen Tighe. "So many sporting names that would usually just come off the tip of my tongue, I can't access their names. Karen Tighe is deeply grateful for the "wonderful" support from her medical team, family, friends and ABC colleagues, but her greatest support has been husband Glenn, who a decade ago leant on her after suffering his own serious health battle. When Tighe started in sport broadcasting, women were few and far between and she's glad to see that changing. After graduating from university in 1989, she sent letters and a videotape of her presenting to camera to all the TV stations in Sydney and landed an on-air job with ABC TV Sport, then later moved to radio with ABC Grandstand. "It makes me want to cry because Zoe was so kind to contact us," says Tighe. "My doctors said to me, 'you really need to give yourself about a year to recover,' but I found that really hard to accept, initially," says Tighe. Zoe Daniel went on to be a highly successful journalist, securing three ABC foreign postings to Africa, South East Asia and North America, where she ran the Washington bureau and covered the election of Donald Trump. But 10 months ago, things were so much worse. "While there are many causes of encephalitis that we can't prevent, like herpes simplex (the cold sore virus) as in Karen's case; there are some causes which are vaccine-preventable like measles, and now Covid-19. "When you're preparing for an event and having some lovely chats with our high-profile athletes, to hear their stories — I've always been really interested in people's stories and there are wonderful stories out there — you just think to yourself, 'how lucky am I?'. She's struggled with the fact there's no quick fix. "It's been a huge help to hear from somebody who has gone through a similar thing and come out the other side.". For renowned Aussie sports broadcaster Karen Tighe, what should have been a cold sore virus led to life-threatening brain inflammation. "And it's made me focus on what's important in life, appreciate the good days and the simple things, like watching my boy play cricket. Karen Tighe is donating the profits from I Felt a Right One to St Luke's Hospice and Breast Cancer Care. "They diagnosed her with viral encephalitis caused by the cold sore virus, herpes simplex. "When she won that award she kept saying, 'I don't deserve this, X, Y, Z person should be ahead of me,' but whenever I put something on Twitter about her illness, people would reply wishing her well and saying, 'Karen, we love you. "So, I was obviously quite close to the edge. In the following months, her hair fell out for weeks on end, she suffered unrelenting nausea that sometimes confined her to bed for a week at a time, as well as terrifying anxiety. "And then so he turned to my husband (fellow broadcaster Glenn Mitchell) and said, 'We need to get Karen into the hospital.'". "I can recognise sportsmen and women, our Prime Minister and Premier, world leaders, and if you wrote me their names mixed in with a whole heap of other names I'd quickly find them but if it's me on my own I just can't say that name off the top of my head and that's why I can't go back to work at the moment. Karen Anne Tighe (pronounced "tie") is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television sports presenter. 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February 22, 2021 is World Encephalitis Day and Karen Tighe is planning on helping to raise awareness of the illness by speaking publicly about her experience. News Post || News Now: Karen Tighe should be behind the mic, expertly steering ABC Radio's sporting coverage as she usually does each summer.But this year "I am not a commentator, that was never an ambition for me, but I am so excited to see some wonderful women who are wonderful commentators getting that opportunity and being respected, women like Kelli Underwood who has worked her backside off and I am so proud of her, and the way cricket has opened up with women as expert commentators and the excellent Allison Mitchell, that is a joy to me. Now comes the task of "gently improving my brain". © Provided by ABC Grandstand Karen Tighe started 2020 on a high after winning a prestigious award for sport broadcasting and then weeks later became dangerously ill with inflammation of the brain. "In fact, a colleague who spoke to me by phone after I came out of hospital later said to me, 'I didn't expect you would ever be able to work as broadcast journalist again'. Tighe has overcome the anxiety with some low-dose medication, but the memory impairment, mainly relating to names and descriptive words, takes a long time to heal. “It was a case of self-preservation for me,” she said. "But, over time, things just sort of slipped back into place.". In late February, Tighe was doing ABC Radio's Summer Grandstand programming when she began feeling tired, achy and generally "a bit yucky", she told news.com.au. ... Glenn was a sufferer of mental illness. At the time of her diagnosis, the award-winning broadcaster was given a 30 per cent chance of dying. "Grandstand in the summer months was then six months away and I thought surely I will be fine by then or surely there must be something that I can do or take to help speed up the brain but the doctors just said, 'no, you just have to give the brain time and this can be a frustrating thing because it's out of your control.'. During the frightening and bewildering weeks after she fell ill, a message via Twitter gave Tighe and Mitchell a huge amount of hope. "I was picked up by ambulance from the doctor's surgery [in Lismore where I was living] and I remember vividly being in the ambulance, obviously completely out of it, looking out the back at the setting sun and the ambos saying 'stay with us, Zoe, please stay with us'. "I've always been a really positive person, but this has been probably the most challenging thing that I've ever gone through and it's something that just came completely out of the blue," says Tighe. Photo / Supplied via news.com.au. I can recognise them written down, I can recognise them visually, but their names all feel like they're hidden behind a door.". But what she's most looking forward to doing is getting back to talking about sport, which has been a lifelong passion. "She just takes each day as it comes and says, 'hopefully every day something more will return', which is a fairly admirable way to look at things. "It's difficult to articulate how you are feeling through all the confusion, that fear and lack of clarity when your brain is not quite working the way that it should and feeling like your personality is lost, that sense of, 'will I get myself back?'. I Felt a Right One is the true story of Karen Tighe, an ordinary woman, and her journey through discovery, diagnosis, treatment and reconstruction caused by breast cancer. For renowned Aussie sports broadcaster Karen Tighe, what should have been a cold sore virus led to life-threatening brain inflammation. "I was a very average sports person myself — I played netball and used to own a horse — but I always loved watching sport, loved watching the cricket, I just love every sport and I think that for so many of us in Australia sport is something which connects us.". A few weeks later, at home in Perth, busy hosting Summer Grandstand she became increasingly unwell over the weekend, describing it as "just feeling off". Physically, she said, she's feeling "so much better". Forty Six Earn Australasian Tour Playing Rights | Bruce ... com.au. "As a trailblazer for women in sports media, Karen has inspired generations of women who have followed," says head of ABC Sport, Nick Morris. "The doctor said she had a 30 per cent chance of passing away if they couldn't get the swelling significantly under control early, so it was pretty frightening.". "For both of us, as much as our families have been so amazing, and work as well, very supportive and caring, you know if you can speak to someone who knows exactly what you're feeling like, it's lovely," Tighe said of meeting Rachael. "Karen has an amazing warmth on air and, coupled with her encyclopaedic knowledge of so many sports and athletes, that makes you want to lean in and hear what she is saying or who she is talking to.". Attitude and Perspective 04/08/2016. Remembering her husband and son's names returned quite quickly, but recalling other family members, friends and colleagues has taken longer. "And when I received that award this year, I was so thrilled that there've been such big steps forward in the last few years. 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"And I think she's been incredibly, incredibly resilient throughout this. "At the very beginning you are told that we don't really know what the outcome is here, we expect that you'll get your memory back but there is no guarantee and while there have been levels of frustration, I think most of us would display a lot more than what she has. Speaking this week at the Floreat home he shares with wife Karen Tighe, a fellow ABC presenter, and their five-year-old son James, Mr Mitchell described how he had struggled with depression on air and off and had been on medication since first seeking help in 2006. February 22, 2021 is World Encephalitis Day and Karen Tighe is planning on helping to raise awareness of the illness by speaking publicly about her experience. "It's quite frustrating and in my case, I had some speech issues too, some slurring. In phone calls with Mitchell, she was keen to reassure him and Tighe that there was a path to recovery, albeit a difficult and challenging one. And she responded, 'of course I know who you are, you're 60 minutes.'. interface language. On the Sunday afternoon, she put herself to bed. The first two to three days of her time at Perth's Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital are "like a blank out". The ABC's former foreign correspondent Zoe Daniel, who'd worked with them both at the Athens Olympics in 2004, reached out after seeing a Mitchell tweet updating on her condition. It looks like my right nipple is 'not on straight'. "A year for me will be next March and just in this last month I have felt that I have turned a corner and I'm finding more and more names I'm getting access to, like Steve Smith, so that that's making me feel very positive.". Karen Tighe, trustee at St Luke’s, blogs about living with a terminal illness, attitude and perspective: I have been having lots of conversations recently about how I handle and talk about my situation. All … She knew exactly what they were going through. By Wednesday, she couldn't even get out of bed to go to a doctor's appointment. She hopes to be back on air by October next year. "For me this has been a complete 180," says Mitchell. In 1997, she made A locum came to see her at home and sent her to hospital. "So we are raising awareness of encephalitis and urging people to seek out reliable information and become vaccine confident to save unnecessary death, disease and suffering.". Karen Tighe has been a regular face and now voice of ABC TV and radio sport since joining the ABC in 1989. Another reason why the last month has been "a big step forward" for Tighe is meeting another encephalitis survivor, Rachael Schwarz, in Perth – just in time for World Encephalitis Day, which is today, February 22. "I didn't know who he was and I didn't know that we had a son and Glenn just said, 'Oh my goodness.' Nobody knows this better, perhaps, than renowned ABC sports broadcaster Karen Tighe – though the last 12 months for her have been defined not by … "My short-term memory is absolutely shot and that's the really awful thing," says Tighe. "They did all this testing, and Glenn said the biggest thing was initially, he was there and leant over to give me a kiss on the forehead and I just went – I put my hand up and said, 'What are you doing?' "The main reason I'm not able to go back to my radio work yet is I still have so many names – they're like behind a closed door in my brain," she said. "My family was invited, it was just the most beautiful evening and everyone there was so lovely to me.". Australian sports broadcasting legend Karen Tighe has opened up on her battle with the ‘bizarre’ neurological disorder that left her fighting for her life. "I'm not too sure I would be able to do it.". "My parents were living in Tasmania at the time and while I was drifting in and out of consciousness, I was told that my uncle was driving down from Brisbane and that my parents were both flying up and I remember thinking, 'I must be going to die.'". Working her last day on Friday, Jan. 16, Probate Judge Karen A. Tighe… She has her own way of seeing our world and tries to catch her own unique view of things through art and photography. Daniel experienced similar memory problems. Karen Tighe, trustee at St Luke’s, blogs about living with a terminal illness, and becoming an empty nester Read more. "Karen has always been someone who has no ego," he says. Tighe was in hospital for nine days, but remembers very little of it, and remained on an intravenous drip at home for 12 days after that. She can picture people and teams but the names — Ash Barty, Tim Paine, the Matildas — frustratingly, just won't come. A Minnesota woman who died at the age of 80 last week will not be missed by her family, who let the public know in a biting obituary. Australian sports broadcaster Karen Tighe. content language. "She is as much a part of summer on ABC Radio as the cricket and her absence this summer has been keenly felt by not only her colleagues, but audiences across the country, who have reached out in scores, wishing her a speedy recovery.". Nobody knows this better, perhaps, than renowned ABC sports broadcaster Karen Tighe – though the last 12 months for her have been defined not by Covid-19, but herpes simplex (cold sore virus) encephalitis – an illness she knew nothing about until she contracted it last March. She's covered the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World Championships in swimming, basketball and netball and six Paralympics, which she regards as career highlights, along with hosting the announcement of Sydney winning the 2000 Olympics, and being on air at events alongside her husband, Glenn. And while six weeks after her diagnosis Tighe could feel her body starting to improve and she could make it outside again for a short walk, almost a year later she's still dealing with "all these other sorts of side symptoms". During our interview, she variously refers to "our world number one women's tennis player", "the captain of the Australian men's cricket team" and "our women's soccer team". "I'm very confident my memory will come back but I just need to give myself a bit more time. "If there's one person or one family out there that read this and go, 'Oh my God, this is what I'm going through and I feel alone because nobody knows what encephalitis is' or 'I've never met someone else who has something familiar that can identify with me', well, I'd be so happy to chat with them," she said. "I remember him arriving, and he did a few basic tests. "It was absolutely terrifying," recalls Zoe Daniel. "I'm just appreciating this summer and hopefully things will fall into place for next year. In 1997 she moved to ABC radio as the anchor of the ABC Radio Grandstand sports program. ', "And I used to say to her, over all the time that you've been at the ABC, 30 years now, you've been in people's houses every weekend throughout the summer months and there is a genuine affection for you which I think in some ways she never quite understood and it's been a nice affirmation for her, because she's always played herself down, so that's been a good thing.". Daniel had herself suffered viral encephalitis at the age of 24 and ended up in an induced coma. "I haven't been through awful discrimination like so many other women have, I really had so much support over my career, but there just weren't many women around," she says. "And it's given me great confidence and hope, hearing what she experienced and seeing what she has then gone on to do in her career. The fact that I am life limited. Typically caused by common viruses – including coronavirus, the flu and measles – encephalitis is a life-threatening inflammation of the brain that can lead to permanent neurological injury. After two decades on the bench, Bay County's first female judge is stepping down. Thankfully, the daily nausea episodes have now ceased, and Tighe is on a low-dose medication to combat the anxiety. Karen was diagnosed with cancer for the second time in her life and was told it was terminal. While physically she's now in good shape, the award-winning broadcaster, whose job relies on swift recall of sporting facts and figures, is unable to remember the names of top sportsmen and women that once rolled off her tongue with ease. Karen Tighe should be behind the mic, expertly steering ABC Radio's sporting coverage as she usually does each summer. There's been cricket, rugby league, golf and tennis coverage and four years on the sport comedy TV show, Live and Sweaty, hosted by Andrew Denton and later Libbi Gorr as Elle McFeast. What should have been a cold sore virus led to her life-threatening brain inflammation. "Karen couldn't remember her date of birth, or our street address, and the doctor advised us to get straight to emergency," says Mitchell. And Tighe has been out front, leading the way. "So, in those early stages she had no idea who I was or who her son was, and it was fairly confronting. "Her longevity at the forefront of sports media is testament to her connection with the audience and the esteem she is held in by the sporting community. "It is safe to say Karen is an audience favourite," says Morris. Most people will look back on 2020 and remember it as a year defined by the discovery of an unknown disease, the race to learn more about it, and – for some – dealing with a slate of side effects long after their diagnosis. "It feels like the majority of names are locked behind a door in my brain and I just can't find the right key to open that door. I mean, we all know we are going to die; it is just that most of us don't know when. Lifetime achievement award for sports journalism: Karen Tighe Best reporting of an issue in sport: Shark Island Productions, ‘The Final Quarter’ Highly Commended: Jamie Pandaram, ‘Israel's holy war’, News Corp Australia Best sport coverage by an individual - broadcast: Gerard Whateley, SEN Radio and Fox Footy. "So, then she ended up with swelling on the temporal lobe and that's what's caused all the memory issues.". But then once they got the right sort of treatments into me, those names and stuff like that kind of came back.". "With the anxiety, it sounds very strange, but I could not stay in the house on my own, even in the daytime. "I thought I was just coming down with something, that it was busy at work, and if I was still feeling a bit yucky at the end of the week I'd go to the doctor," Tighe recalled. I feel the left one for good measure and can definitely detect a lump on the right side.’ “I was hanging on by my fingernails but I had to keep a sense of normality for my son. "What Karen has gone through could happen to anyone regardless of age, gender or ethnicity," Dr Easton explained. Karen Tighe from Harrow Weald, was once a trustee of the Hospice. Best sport coverage by an individual - written: Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend Recovery from encephalitis, or any brain injury, can be excruciatingly slow and everyone's experience is different. recalls Mitchell. I Felt a Right One, Karen Tighe ‘Whilst in the bath I lay back and take a look at my ‘bigger than I would really like’ body and focus on my chest… I put my glasses on and have a really good look, then start to gently feel my whole right breast. This is only the second summer in 31 years that Karen Tighe isn't working (the other time was when her son was born) and ABC Radio listeners are missing her. "It lies dormant in your body and if you get rundown it normally materializes again as a cold sore, but one in 200,000 cases, I was told, goes to the brain and that's what happened to Karen. As a sports commentator for the ABC, and married to fellow broadcaster, Tighe will spend this summer watching her son play cricket — a rare treat — with an ear tuned into ABC Sport, patiently playing the long game until she finds the elusive key to that locked door and can retrieve those lost names. And he said, 'Oh, I just wanted to give you a kiss,' and I said, 'Who are you?'" HelloFresh Offer Revealed: Get 40% Off Over Your Next 4 Deliveries Now! But what she’s most looking forward to doing is getting back to talking about sport, which has been a lifelong passion. In her home city of Sydney, Karen spent eight years as a TV sports broadcaster and presenter, anchoring golf, tennis and other major sporting broadcasts on the ABC network. Karen Tighe - living with a terminal illness - YouTube ytimg.com. Not long after joining the ABC legendary broadcaster, George Grljusich dubbed him “The Oracle” due to his encyclopaedic knowledge of sport. 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