Leah Rogers, 17, thought she had a bad case of tonsillitis after a holiday with friends
A teenager, who thought she had a bad case of tonsillitis following her first parent-free holiday, died just weeks later.
Kath said: "It's as if that was meant to happen". When Leah and her mum returned to the hospital a consultant met with Leah and decided she needed to be admitted to hospital. The next day doctors told Leah's parents that the blood tests had shown she had liver failure. Kath said: "From there then it escalated. They said she needed to go to a specialist centre in Birmingham. They told us she would possibly need a liver transplant and they were trying to get a bed for her in Birmingham."
"They thought it might be leukaemia or they thought it might be a condition called HLH. The doctor said: 'Please don't Google it.' Of course, that's the first thing we did. Oh gosh. It hit me like a sledgehammer. It was awful. "They came up on the Monday afternoon and we could just see Leah was deteriorating in front of our eyes. We thought: 'This is just cruel.' We couldn't do it anymore. It was prolonging things for her and prolonging things for us. So we discussed with the doctors and asked if there anything else you could do for her to give her any kind of chance and the answer was no basically.
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