Heartbroken mum shares last thing daughter said before she died of asthma attack
A heartbroken mum has shared her shock after her daughter collapsed and died of an asthma attack and said she was "upbeat and positive" before her death.
Amy Greenwood, 22, from Skelmersdale, was found unconscious by her fiancé after she suffered from an unexpected asthma attack. She was rushed to Wigan hospital but sadly passed away the next day. Her family made the painful decision to turn off her life support on October 21 last year.
Her mum Joanne revealed her daughter had just moved into her new home with her partner and two children, Bailey, 5, and Orla, one. During their last phone call, she told Joanne about the tasks she had completed that day. Speaking about the last time they spoke, Joanne said: "She phoned me and said 'I've had a shower and washed my hair.' She'd just moved into her new house - she was looking forward to living there.
Amy shared two children with her partner Keagan (Greenwood family)"She'd just put a coffee table together with Keegan, her partner. [She said she] was OK, that she'd bought a little outfit for Orla - it was a Christmas pudding outfit that was still hanging up on the back of the door weeks and weeks later. She was just quite upbeat and positive. I didn't for one minute think it would be the last time I saw her and spoke to her."
That night, Amy's fiancé Keagan Boylan heard a thud and when he went upstairs, he found Amy unconscious and not breathing, reports Liverpool Echo. Immediately commencing CPR, family and paramedics were called and Amy was rushed to Wigan hospital. Despite the best efforts of doctors, Amy died the following day. Joanne said: "She'd had such a bad episode. The hospital said it's nothing you've done or she's done, there could have been an underlying infection or a basic cold that could have triggered it. It was that bad there was no resuscitating her from that."
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Speaking about what her daughter was like, she added: "She was just a 22 year old looking forward to the rest of her life. The past 12 months we've missed her in so many ways. We spoke multiple times a day. Friends of hers have had children and I know she would be the first one to tell me things. I've also realised how loved she was by everybody." Asda worker Amy had suffered with asthma all her life. Joanne said Amy had been in and out of hospital with the condition over the years, but she'd never had an episode as bad as the one she had on the night before she died.
Keegan heard a thump upstairs and found Amy not breathing (James Greenwood/Liverpool Echo)
Amy sadly died at the age of 22 (James Greenwood/Liverpool Echo)Joanne said it's really important that people know how serious asthma can be as everyone knows someone with the condition. She said: "It's really important that people can recognise it so if they're with a friend that needs an inhaler and they can't breath than they would know what to do. And just be a little bit more sympathetic as well to people with asthma. People don' realise how debilitating it is."
One year on, the family have arranged a charity ball for October 14. Tickets to Amy's Charity Ball have now sold out but people can still buy tickets for the raffle - with all money raised going to Asthma + Lung UK. Joanne said the team at Asda in Skelmersdale, where Amy worked, have been "fantastic" and have gone "above and beyond" in donating prizes for the raffle. She added: "It's all about remembering Amy. She would be absolutely blown away if she knew the response we've had from people and the love people have shown her. It sounds a bit of cliché but she was funny, she was always laughing. She saw the good in people. She was a really good friend to people and she just loved her babies."
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