Actor Jason Watkins says he blames himself for death of daughter Maudie but hopes her story will help others
30.03.2023 - 19:27
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Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie: "She was floppy and pale and her eyes were rolling into her head. This was not something we were expecting at all. We were terrified so we drove back to the hospital.
I ran in to triage, and they said it was croup. The paediatric doctor came in and said they thought she was doing better and that her temperature was falling. We were in the world of things should be OK and for the second time she was discharged from A&E.
" What went undetected was that Maudie had sepsis, a condition where the body’s immune system overreacts to an infection, causing it to go into overdrive and attack the body's tissues and organs. The morning after being discharged for a second time, their older daughter Bessie came in to tell her parents she couldn't wake Maude. For more stories about TV programmes, sign up to our newsletter"I went into her room," remembers Jason.
"And I saw her on the cot and she was lying flat and there was a trickle of blood that had dried by the side of her mouth so I knew she had died straightaway. "Clara asks: "How can you go to sleep one night and have a child who has a bit of a bad cold and croup, and then wake up the next morning and your child is dead?"During their first joint therapy meeting with a counsellor, Clara said: "I think about that car journey to the hospital (for the second visit) in depth. I can still feel the weight of her on my lap.
When people talk of the trauma, I think that that will be the day we found her dead but actually going through that car journey, I hadn't really done it. "I do feel that if I had been a different type of person I could have said 'No, I want you to keep her in tonight'. "She told GMB presenters Susannah Reid and Adil Ray that while her
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