As the first anniversary of the sudden death of her teenage daughter approaches, a Clayton-le-Woods mum helps mark the moment with an awareness week
Every time Sue Worth hears a key turn in the door of her home, her heart gives a little skip of joy. For a fleeting moment, she believes it is daughter Louise and happily thinks of all the things that have happened during the day which she can share with her only child. Then reality sinks in and sue knows her beautiful and bubbly daughter will never return home again.
For 17-year-old Louise died a year ago and for her family and friends, the pain is still as raw as if it happened yesterday.
Unlike some parents who lose a child, Sue had no warning. Louise was a fit and healthy girl who had shown no signs of illness. Instead, the former deputy head girl and Balshaws High School in Leyland who was studying for her A-levels at Runshaw College, was a victim of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, a condition which causes unexpected cardiac death in the young.
Sue, 49, who lives with partner Ken Jarvis in Clayton-le-Woods, near Chorley, recalls how Louise had been perfectly fine in the hours leading up to her death. Looking around at the many photographs of her smiling daughter adorning her living room, Sue remembers:
