Police are searching for a missing Scots man from the Edinburgh area. Shaun Nixon has been reported missing from the Craigmillar area of the city.
06.02.2023 - 11:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots mum has spoken of her heartache at losing her newborn baby daughter, as her son prepares to run a mini-marathon as a tribute.
Heather Ellis, 32, and partner David Stenhouse from Musselburgh, East Lothian tragically lost their daughter Lindsay at just 31 days old after she was diagnosed with Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Lindsay was born 12 weeks premature on August 11, 2022 and died on September 4 at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Describing grief as "like a wave", Heather is now trying to raise awareness of the condition to help others in her situation, reports Edinburgh Live.
Heather's son Eli, 11, is now running to raise donations for the Edinburgh charity Held in Our Hearts, which supported the family in their time of need.
Heather said: "It's still very raw. With her tiny bowels, once it set in, there was no going back. The hospital wanted to perform an ileostomy to see if they could fit a stoma bag and see if they could retain some of her intestines.
"But when they took her for the operation, there was nothing left, none of her small bowel left, it was all gone. And the small bowel is the one that absorbs and digests all the nutrients in your body."
NEC can be difficult to diagnose, according to the NHS. The serious illness causes tissues in the intestine to become inflamed and start to die. It can then result in a hole developing where contents of the bowels can leak into the abdomen, resulting in a very dangerous infection.
Heather said: "Looking back, it was agony. The 31 days of photos we've got of her, she's doing fantastic for the first 20 days - she was doing great. But when the nurse thought it was NEC, suddenly she just went downhill so fast.
"You just get stuck in your bubble, you don't know what's
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