A MUM is heartbroken aft her 17-year-old, who had conscionable learned her crab was successful remission, died from suspected sepsis a week later.
Hannah Riddell had been battling stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma since August 2024, aft uncovering a golf ball-sized lump nether her arm.
“She had truthful galore plans," her mother, Jill Mitcheson, 44, said, "she wanted a future, and it was each taken away."
Hannah, from Ashington, Northumberland had conscionable finished schoolhouse and was readying to survey question and tourism astatine Newcastle College.
But her plans were enactment connected clasp aft the cancer diagnosis.
The teen underwent six rounds of chemotherapy and connected January 7, she was told she was successful remission, which means determination is nary motion of crab successful the body.
Throughout it all, Hannah's boyfriend, Kieron Stokoe, 18, was by her side, supporting her “every measurement of the way.”
Plans to observe her betterment with a vacation to Mallorca were successful the works erstwhile calamity struck again.
On January 14, during a regular blood test, Hannah suffered 2 seizures. Her bosom stopped soon after.
Jill described however Hannah appeared “very pale” and was vomiting before the test.
"Her breathing was ragged and she was struggling,” the mum said.
Hannah complained of utmost symptom successful her legs, to the constituent wherever Jill “could not laic a digit connected them.”
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Another seizure took hold, and the exigency squad was called and the country rapidly filled with staff.
“Her eyes were rolling backmost successful her caput – she was panicking,” Jill recalled.
“Her breathing was truly laboured and she was truly struggling.”
It was astatine this constituent Hannah was moved to captious care, and Jill began to fearfulness the worst.
"I knew she was earnestly ill, but I ne'er thought we’d suffer her,” she said.
After immoderate time, a caregiver entered the room, tears successful her eyes. “I’m sorry, Hannah is gone,” she said.
Jill couldn’t judge it.
“What bash you mean, she’s gone?” she asked.
The caregiver explained that astir 55 minutes ago, her bosom stopped beating.
"We’ve been trying to resuscitate her, but I’m truthful sorry, she’s gone," Jiill remembers the caregiver telling her.
What are the symptoms of sepsis?
SEPSIS is simply a life-threatening absorption to an corruption that happens erstwhile your immune strategy overreacts and starts to harm your body's ain tissues and organs.
Symptoms of sepsis successful an big include:
- Acting confused, slurred code oregon not making sense
- Blue, grey, airy oregon blotchy skin, lips oregon lingua – connected brownish oregon achromatic skin, this whitethorn beryllium easier to spot connected the palms of the hands oregon soles of the feet
- A rash that does not slice erstwhile you rotation a solid implicit it, the aforesaid as meningitis
- Difficulty breathing, breathlessness oregon breathing precise fast
Symptoms successful a kid include:
- Blue, grey, airy oregon blotchy skin, lips oregon lingua – connected brownish oregon achromatic skin, this whitethorn beryllium easier to spot connected the palms of the hands oregon soles of the feet
- A rash that does not slice erstwhile you rotation a solid implicit it, the aforesaid as meningitis
- Difficulty breathing (you whitethorn announcement grunting noises oregon their tummy sucking nether their ribcage), breathlessness oregon breathing precise fast
- A weak, high-pitched outcry that's not similar their mean cry
- Not responding similar they usually do, oregon not funny successful feeding oregon mean activities
- Being sleepier than mean oregon having trouble waking
They whitethorn not person each these symptoms.
If you deliberation you oregon idiosyncratic other has symptoms of sepsis, telephone 999 oregon spell to A&E.
Source: NHS
Jill and Hannah’s father, Michael, went into the captious attraction portion wherever they were inactive doing “brutal” chest compressions connected Hannah,
But erstwhile Jill held her manus she “knew she was gone”.
“It was conscionable surreal, similar it was not truly happening and she was going to aftermath up – it happened truthful quickly, determination was nary warning," the mum added.
“It was conscionable the cruellest happening ever. Her full beingness had been connected hold. It was conscionable the astir devastating happening that could perchance happen."
Hannah had dreamed of having “two oregon three” children.
She had her ovary removed for preservation, hoping for a aboriginal family.
“Hannah was similar a 2nd parent to her younger brother. She was truthful caring,” Jill said.
The household has raised implicit £3,500 connected GoFundMe for ceremonial expenses.
They are present awaiting the results of an inquest to find what caused Hannah’s abrupt death.
Her parents judge it could person been sepsis, which happens erstwhile the assemblage has a absorption to an infection.
It tin pb to insubstantial damage, organ failure, and death.
Globally, 1 3rd of radical who make sepsis die, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
And galore who bash past are near with life-changing effects, specified as post-traumatic accent disorder (PTSD), chronic symptom and fatigue, organ dysfunction (organs don’t enactment properly), and amputations.
What is Hodgkin lymphoma?
HODGKIN lymphoma is simply a benignant of humor crab that starts successful achromatic humor cells called lymphocytes.
It is not common, with astir 2,100 radical diagnosed each twelvemonth successful the UK.
Like each cancers, symptoms alteration and tin beryllium vague. However, patients usually announcement swelling successful 1 oregon much lymph nodes.
This tin beryllium successful immoderate country of the body, but is often successful the neck, armpit oregon groin.
The swelling is usually painless, though immoderate people find that it aches.
Some radical with Hodgkin lymphoma besides person different much wide symptoms. These tin include:
- Night sweats
- Unintentional value loss
- A precocious somesthesia (fever)
- A persistent cough or feeling of breathlessness
- Persistent itching of the tegument each implicit the body
Source: Cancer Research UK and the NHS