I thought my daughter had a winter bug – within 12 hours she was fatally ill with sepsis
Lauren had a busy start to her last week at home. She was rehearsing for a big ballet show on Monday. On Tuesday, she was practising for a school Christmas drama production. So, when on the morning of Wednesday December 4 2019, she said she didn’t feel very well, I put it down to her busy schedule and the need to have a duvet day. It was the time of year when “there’s a lot going round” so I wasn’t overly concerned – and her younger sister Leah, then nine, had been poorly at the beginning of the