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Two mums have joined forces to fund heart screening days for young people after tragically losing their children to sudden cardiac attacks within two weeks of each other.
Donna Parker and Lesley Mease, who live just four miles apart, never knew each other until their lives were shattered last summer.
Donna, from in Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, lost her daughter Vicky Parker, 30, to a sudden cardiac attack on the 17th of August 2023. The fit and healthy mother-of-two had no prior symptoms.
“She travelled to Oxford with her partner and the girls, went on the train, basically got to the house they were stopping in with family members and I don’t think she had even been here an hour and she was sat in an arm chair and she had a cardiac arrest,” Donna said.
Two weeks later, Lesley Mease’s son Wilson Shepherd, who was very athletic and ran multiple triathlons, died from a Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADs) aged 25 on the 31st August 2023.
Lesley said she had seen Wilson the day before he died and “he was absolutely fine”.
