This is our story of our little girl who we
lost back in 2007.
I found out I was
pregnant with our Tia-leigh at 5 months we were so over joyed. Like all mothers
to be you make all the appointments with the doctors and midwives. I went to all
my appointments, got all my bloods taken to find out that I had low platelets, at that time they said it was fine but we had to have regular check-ups.
Every time I was checked, things didn't seem
to change but when I went to the hospital i was seen by a doctor who had the
wrong notes for me - they were for a Karen Bell who was 10 years older than me. I
told her and she said it was fine. I was supposed to be checked every 2
weeks but she gave me an appointment for 1 month later, but at the time we never
knew how serious low platelets were as no one had really explained what they
were and the effects, so we thought nothing of it.
It was new year’s day 2007. I started bleeding, not much it was very little so we phoned the hospital. They said I had to go
straight in - I got scans and all sorts of tests done, only to find out she had
passed, we were so distraught then to find out I still had to give birth the
natural way, was just so hard to do. Our daughters Danielle, Karlie, and Jade were also devastated.
When she was born I was by myself, as I gave
birth I had to hold her head and wait for the nurse to come. It was so hard
seeing her after what had happened, then having to leave hospital without her
was just devastating. The staff at the QE in Gateshead were brilliant, so caring. They said they could pay for the funeral which we thought great as we couldn't really afford it but they said it had to be done their way which we didn't want, so we decided to do it ourselves. We went through the co-op at Blaydon. The
under taker was lovely IRENE, we were lucky she helped us through every step. We
told her we couldn't go and visit her at the hospital as the bloke at the
morgue said she had deteriorated too far, so when Irene went to pick her up the
first thing she did when she went and got her was phone us and say she is beautiful
and to come and see her any time which we were overjoyed, knowing we could at
least see her again.
We were there every day till she was laid to
rest, then a couple of weeks after she was buried we went to visit her and some
other poor soul had died. They opened up another grave and the council had taken everything off her grave, slung it to one side and completely covered her grave
we couldn't even find it. We never even got an apology we thought what else can
go wrong we just had to get on with our life without our little Tia.
We then we found out I was pregnant again we
went to the hospital and found out we were having twins, but once again I had
low platelets. We kept all appointments - on Christmas eve we went for a check-up
and my platelets had dropped very low so we had to stay in and the twins were
born a boy and a girl. I have always wanted a little boy as I had all girls and
there he was.
We believe our little Tia gave her own life
so we got our little boy, but we also got our precious little girl as well we
were over the moon. We still haven't come to terms with losing our little girl, we never will. It still hurts as much now as it did then. Our lives still have an
empty space which no one can fill.
Our little princess Tia-leigh will never be
forgotten
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