On
the 1st of May 2008, our beautiful precious daughter and wonderful
sister to David was sadly taken from us, aged just 21.
Leanne was at Uni studying sports and was in her 2nd year. She
was an incredibly fit and healthy young lady which is why this is
all so hard to understand.
Leanne played water polo and swam for the University and came home
at weekends to work as a lifeguard at our local leisure centre.
Leanne had been a bit off colour the weekend before and we thought
she had flu. However, she didn't want to come home. She
thought she would be OK but by Monday morning she phoned me at 6am
saying she wanted to come home, so I drove to Wales to bring her
home.
Leanne was OK at first - just content on being home - but by
Wednesday there didn't seem to be any improvement so I called the
Doctor out to her and he told us she had tonsillitis and prescribed
antibiotics.
However,
on Thursday morning she seemed worse so I called the Doctor again at
lunch time and he came back early evening. When he couldn't get a
blood pressure reading from her he said she needed to go to
hospital, so my husband drove us there as we could get there quicker
than waiting for an ambulance.
Within
one and a half hours of her being admitted she had died.
It
is all still so painful. I still struggle to understand why this has
happened to a perfectly fit and healthy girl.
