Sharron
was just 39 when she died on Saturday 26th May 2007. We received a phone
call from her children saying paramedics were trying to resuscitate
their mom - they were crying uncontrollably.
She had
been out for a meal, came home, sat down and it happened.
We told
the kids we would meet them at the hospital where a few hours later
Sharron was pronounced dead, to our utter disbelief.
She had
been fit and healthy so why did this happen? At the time, doctors
believed she had a blood clot which had burst, but on Post Mortem there
was no evidence. Further invasive tests also showed nothing apart
from that she was perfectly fit and healthy.
The
Coroner therefore recorded Sudden Cardiac Death on her Death
Certificate. The reasoning for this was because a month or so prior to
her death she had visited the doctors numerous times with breathlessness
and chest pain. They put it down to asthma and gave her an inhaler
that didn't work, and the day before she died they referred her for a
chest X-ray. If only that had been an ECG instead she could very
well be alive today.
