 A mum whose seven-year-old daughter died a day after being sent home from school with 'the sniffles' has written a book about the ordeal to 'offer a glimmer of hope' to other grieving parents. Clare Louise, 54, lost her daughter, Annaliese, in the summer of 2018. After waking up with a cold, she remained 'quite lethargic' and complained of pain in her hip when picked up early from school the following day. She took Annaliese to her GP and the hospital, where she was discharged after having tests, but the following day she was 'crying with pain' and had diarrhoea and 'mottled' thighs. Annaliese was taken back to hospital when her condition deteriorated, arriving at 10pm, but by 1pm she was dead. Clare, a co-founder of a business communications consultancy who lives in the Home Counties with her husband, Matt, 52, and their two adopted sons, described feeling as though she had 'failed' when it turned out Annaliese had iGAS, which 'could have been treated with antibiotics'. According to the NHS, invasive group A streptococcal disease is a serious strep A infection where the bacteria are isolated from a normally sterile body site, such as the blood. Now, Clare has written a book, called And Always Annaliese to help others with grief and loss, adding that she 'is still a part of (her) family and always will (be)'. In summer 2018, Annaliese woke up 'with a bit of a cold and the sniffles', but Clare recalls 'it wasn't anything out of the ordinary'. She went on: 'She woke up with a bit of a cold and the sniffles, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. She went to bed early and the next day she said she felt a bit better, so she got up and went to school. 'She was still under the weather, and at lunchtime I got a call from the school saying she was very distressed, and when I picked her up, she was quite lethargic. 'Her temperature was high, and she was sleeping on the sofa, an){kind=link}
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A mum whose seven-year-old daughter died a day after being sent home from school with ‘the sniffles’ has written a book about the ordeal to ‘offer a glimmer of hope’ to other grieving parents.
Clare Louise, 54, lost her daughter, Annaliese, in the summer of 2018. After waking up with a cold, she remained ‘quite lethargic’ and complained of pain in her hip when picked up early from school the following day.
She took Annaliese to her GP and the hospital, where she was discharged after having tests, but the following day she was ‘crying with pain’ and had diarrhoea and ‘mottled’ thighs.
Annaliese was taken back to hospital when her condition deteriorated, arriving at 10pm, but by 1pm she was dead.