A 23-one year-old mum who died on Christmas Day – lower than a month after being identified with leukaemia – posted a heartbreaking final Facebook message in the times earlier than her death.
Kirsten Hawksey – who’s supposed to score “idolised” her 15-month-old daughter Penelope – was once identified with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia on November 27.
In her final submit on Facebook – made on December 3, the day she started chemotherapy – Kirsten thanked her family and friends for persuading her to plug to the doctors and urged people to “now not ignore any symptom”.
Kirsten posted: « This is by all technique now not a enlighten for sympathy because that is now not care for me as you can endure in thoughts haha, however extra so consciousness.
« I never plug to the doctors, so thank god for every person pushing me to plug over some unexplained bruising!
« I actually would possibly well well now not thank all my family, friends and work colleagues for all their toughen this final week. If one thing else I in actuality feel extra lucky than wretched. »
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Sadly Kirsten, from Merseyside, lost her battle for existence on Monday – Christmas Day – three weeks after she final posted the final public message on Facebook.
This day her devastated dad Neil defined to the Liverpool Echo how his “excellent and solid-willed” daughter had noticed bruising on her legs which she to birth with now not noted.
“She in actuality Googled the symptom and it came motivate asserting leukaemia. Nevertheless it undoubtedly was once correct laughed off, because she wasn’t in miserable health,” he said.
Nevertheless after the bruising worsened Kirsten went to the doctors and, after blood assessments, was once straight away admitted to the Royal Liverpool University Clinic to launch chemotherapy.
Nevertheless, on Christmas Eve, Kirsten – who considerable her birthday correct weeks earlier – diminished in size a lung an infection and was once transferred to Wythenshawe Clinic, in Larger Manchester.
Her immune system had crashed and the younger mum was once placed on existence toughen and a lung-bypass machine.
Tragically, on December 25, Kirsten suffered a bleed on the mind and later that day her devastated family made the heartbreaking resolution to sing off her existence toughen machine.
Now her family would favor to attend unfold her final message.
Neil, 39, said: “We didn’t even know she had posted that message on Facebook – Kirsten was once very non-public so it was once a enormous shock that she had.
“Nevertheless she obviously wished to care for consciousness and that’s the reason we’re speaking out to honour her needs.”
Neil, from Crosby, said his daughter felt completely “now not new” in the times main as much as her diagnosis, aside from noticing some unexplained bruising.
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He said: “She was once match and neatly aside from this bruising.
“We said ‘plug to the doctors’ however she said ‘I’m alright’ – she correct thought it was once from the toddler.
“Nevertheless it undoubtedly got to the level when she was once in the dwelling and she showed us her legs and we said you score to attain to the doctors.
“The bruises looked care for – what I will fully verbalize as whenever you occur to had been paintballing.
“Doctors asked her if she had felt drained and she said ‘certain however now not exceptionally so’.
“She had a 15-month-old daughter and worked fleshy time – she was once disappear to be drained.
“We thought she can most likely be anaemic or one thing.
“She in actuality Googled the symptom and it came motivate asserting leukaemia. Nevertheless it undoubtedly was once correct laughed off, because she wasn’t in miserable health.”
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After every week or so of being pestered by her friends and family Kirsten – a dental nurse in Liverpool city centre – in the break went to the doctors.
Following blood assessments doctors delivered the devastating details she had Acute promyelocytic leukaemia – a most cancers of the white blood cells.
On the different hand, in spite of the seriousness of her situation, Neil said his daughter remained particular.
He said: “It was once unfamiliar hearing the doctors verbalize how in miserable health she in actuality was once, because she was once sitting there laughing and joking with me.
“Kirsten was once now not the create of lady who would moan or complain.
“She wasn’t a ‘why me?’ style.
“She was once so solid willed and she correct planned to wrestle it and gather on with existence.
“She would never score given up combating because of the her daughter – she idolised her and fully cherished her to bits.
“Nevertheless sadly issues were taken out of her management.”
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Neil, who also has a sixteen-one year-old son Jack, said it was once “catastrophic” when doctors told him and wife Emma that their daughter had suffered a bleed on the mind.
He said all the family correct felt “fully numb”.
He said: “It doesn’t in actuality feel actual today to be proper.
“As soon as we were told it was once leukaemia I asked ‘why Kirsten?’ ‘was once it one thing else she did?’ ‘would possibly well it now not had been picked up when she had her daughter’? Nevertheless doctors said ‘she is correct wretched’.
“There would possibly be now not any motive.
“She wasn’t a smoker – she drank very runt, she was once a hardworking, loving and excellent mum, daughter and granddaughter.”
Neil added: “We would now not on the total discuss out care for this on the different hand it was once Kirsten’s final decide.
“We now score had so worthy toughen from family and friends and score even had messages from people that don’t even know us which is overwhelming.
“We are devastated and I don’t know what we would score avoided Penelope. Nevertheless we are in a position to be obvious she never forgets her mum.”