Leah Rogers died just three months before her 18th birthday
A teenager who returned from her first holiday abroad without her parents with a sore throat was given a heartbreaking diagnosis and died weeks later
Leah and her elder sister had planned to go on holiday to Palma Nova in May last year with a group of friends. The family had visited the holiday destination on the island of Majorca many times and it was one of Leah's favourite places After days of not seeing any improvements to her condition she was prescribed with a different course of antibiotics. But when Kath realised the hospital had not given her enough tablets to last for 10 days as prescribed she returned to the hospital alone only to be told Leah had to accompany her in order to be given any more medication.
Doctors agreed that as soon as she could drink and eat she could go home. Due to the pain near her liver Leah was still taken for blood tests. "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," said Kath. HLH, or haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, is a life-threatening immune condition that causes the body to react inappropriately to a ‘trigger’, usually an infection.
Kath said that in some ways she was grateful that Leah was put on life support before the family knew the severity of the situation. "It gives us some comfort that she wasn't scared or awake when we were told there was nothing they could do for her."It just all happened so quickly, really. It was absolutely devastating. We've since been back and I made arrangements to go see the consultant at the Bridgend hospital," said Kath.
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