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The 33-year-old's decline in health began when she fell ill with cold symptoms around a fortnight ago. Kate initially had a cold and a cough but her symptoms began to ease before getting worse, according to her mum Alison Thomas.
She said: "About two weeks ago she had a cough and a cold, with the usual cold symptoms. Then it kind of got better after a week, but it then got worse.
"Last Tuesday (November 29), it got worse again, Kate felt really weak, she couldn’t stand up and she felt really dizzy.
"She left it until Thursday and rang us to say she didn’t feel well. Her sister went to her and they rang 111.
"She then got told that she would get a call from the GP, who said it sounded like influenza and told her to rest, drink plenty of fluids and stay at home. They told her not to go to work and that they would sign her off for a couple of weeks."
Kate later rang 999 after claiming she was short of breath and had chest pains. She was then taken in an ambulance to Arrowe Park Hospital.
Alison said: "Within an hour of her being there they took her to intensive care. She went for a heart scan and we were waiting on those results to come back.
"Her sisters said they’d see her tomorrow - her oxygen levels seemed to be a lot better, so they left thinking that she was ok. About 10pm on Friday, Arrowe Park rang and said they needed to put Kate in a coma and move her to the heart centre in Wythenshawe, because the influenza had attacked her heart and she had heart failure.
"Her dad and I live in Somerset, so we
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