"Why does everyone I love have to die?": Fears for teen brothers' future after tragic loss of mum
30.04.2022 - 11:53
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two devastated teenagers have been left orphaned following the tragic death of their mother. Carol Oliver, 47, died on Good Friday after a five-month battle with pneumonia.
Her death comes just three years after her partner Steve Loughrey died from septicaemia. They leave behind sons Ethan, 18, and Bailey, 14, who has severe autism.
The brothers, from Eccles , now have no source of income. Ethan has since quit college to care for Bailey full time. The pair only have two family members remaining, their auntie and cousin Genna.
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Genna, 32, has set up a fundraising appeal in a desperate bid to help the boys with their living costs. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News , she said: “When I told Bailey, he was screaming. It was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.
“He said, ‘Why does everyone I love have to die? She was so young, who’s going to care for me now? Who’s going to pay for the house?’ Ethan was lost for words. He’s traumatised.”
Carol first fell ill in November 2021. She was taken to hospital by ambulance on Ethan’s 18th birthday and treated for pneumonia with antibiotics.
But just days later her health took a turn for the worse and she was rushed back to hospital. Sadly, she never returned home.
“She had been in ICU but as far as we knew, she couldn’t have any visitors,” Genna continued. “As soon as we found out she could we went to see her on the Friday before Good Friday.
“When we were talking to her, we couldn’t get any sense out of her. “The week before, they stopped treating her and said there was nothing more they could do.
“She was put on end-of-life support. She was Facetiming Ethan and then for