Never Broken by Hannah Campbell

Author:Hannah Campbell [Hannah Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781784188047
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2015-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

COMA

Even now, Jamie says it was one of the worst moments of his life. It was shortly after 11pm on 1 June 2010 and he’d just settled down to sleep when he got a knock on the door of the special family room he was staying in at the hospital. A nurse told him he needed to get over to the ward right away as I had type 2 respiratory failure and sepsis, a condition that was causing all the organs in my body to slowly shut down. Jamie immediately knew how serious it was. He has told me since then that he ran over to the ward without even shutting the door, following the medical officer. It was clear I was dying and he knew he had to get to me.

In the short space of time before he got there I had been put in a medically induced coma and still he was not allowed to see me. At the time they were working on me to try and do everything possible to save me. He just had to sit on his own in the relatives’ room anxiously waiting for any news. I was so ill I wasn’t even moved to Intensive Care at that point as it was deemed too risky. Within hours I was transferred there on full life support with a machine breathing for me. It was absolutely horrific as we’d gone through so much and for this to happen, on top of everything else, was too cruel to bear. With any kind of surgery there are always risks but I was just one of the few very unlucky people who developed a complication. I blame my weight, as the heavier you are when you have major surgery, the likelihood of complications increases. But doctors have since told me I was just very, very unlucky. I never breathed deeply after I came round from the surgery and I think this made my lungs sticky and then I got pneumonia. This infection led to sepsis and my immune system was so weakened that my organs went into full failure almost straight away. It was a domino effect and the doctors feared I might not make it.

Knowing Mum and Dad must be exhausted from the drive north, it wasn’t until the following morning that Jamie broke the news. Mum had only arrived in Whitby a matter of hours earlier, but she immediately said: ‘If Hannah’s in Intensive Care and there’s any chance at all that she’s going to die, then she’s going to die with her family around her.’ She dropped Milly off with my aunty, who lived in the town, and immediately drove south again, picking up Dad en route. They arrived by my bedside at 8.30pm, long after visiting hours, and were taken into a side room with a big box of tissues on the table and given a cup of tea. The doctor explained I’d developed an infection, they didn’t know what it was and they were growing cultures to try and find out.

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