A 'BRIGHT and bubbly' 14-year-old girl tragically died of liver failure just a day after a donor was found and a major operation was planned to save her life.
City fan Maisie Almond, from Stalybridge, who dreamed of becoming an accountant and had plans to backpack around the world with her friends, lost her short battle on October 2 just two weeks after first complaining of a tummy ache.
The teenager, described by her parents as 'happy and smiling all the time, underwent multiple tests at Tameside Hospital before it was revealed she had acute liver failure.
Maisie returned home from her charity shop volunteer job, at Willow Wood in Hyde, on September 15 with pains in her stomach. After recently going back to school, her family didn't initially think it was cause for concern.
But that night, after waking up and again suffering from tummy ache, she developed eye jaundice. Her parents Kathryn and Stuart took her to the emergency department for tests to be carried out.
"We thought it was just a tummy bug that goes round school and that, after a day off school, she'd be fine," mum Kathryn told the Manchester Evening News. "We thought it was probably a run of the mill tummy bug, especially with going back after the holidays.
This story is from the October 17, 2024 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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