By writer to www.examinerlive.co.uk
A 4 12 months outdated Barnsley woman who spent her total life battling a collection of advanced medical issues with out ever shedding her smile has died unexpectedly whereas awaiting a double organ transplant.
Charlotte Newton was solely 36 hours outdated when she needed to be transferred from Barnsley Hospital to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham for specialist assist and she or he developed well being issues together with kidney and liver failure, a coronary heart downside and genetic dysfunction which prevented her from rising usually.
However regardless of these monumental setbacks she had battled to the purpose the place docs had put her on the ready listing for a double liver and kidney transplant.
Sadly that surgical procedure was not doable earlier than her demise, which occurred unexpectedly, leaving her household attempting to return to phrases with the tragedy of her loss.
She had been dwelling with mother and father John and Rachel, aged 39 and 37, and older sister Emily, seven, at Hampole Drive when she misplaced her life.
Solely minutes earlier she had been speaking to her grandparents through the web.
Dad John mentioned a put up mortem examination was nonetheless wanted to verify why she died and a coronavirus check was being carried out, however as she had been on lockdown and displaying no signs, that was believed unlikely as a trigger.
He informed South Yorkshire Stay: “We misplaced her utterly unexpectedly. I don’t know if we might have been extra ready if we had misplaced her in the course of the transplant. Phrases can not comprehend how devastated I’m as a father.
“Regardless of her medical issues, she by no means noticed that as one thing which hindered her in life.
“She approached her disabilities with a smile. Any particular person she encountered, she lit up the room. She introduced life to all the things she touched, there was pleasure in all the things she did,” he mentioned.
Preparations for Charlotte’s funeral are anticipated to be difficult by the coronavirus lockdown and have nonetheless to be accomplished.
Her mother and father will be capable of spend time along with her at Rose Cottage, the youngsters’s mortuary at Sheffield Youngsters’s Hospital, the place they are going to be capable of depart her with toys and household images, nonetheless.
A crowd funding web page has been arrange by GoFundMe to boost cash to assist the household. Click here to visit the page.
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