Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston has revealed her heartache over her daughter Josie, who has been battling bacterial meningitis in hospital for weeks.
Josie, 18, was rushed to intensive care and put into an induced coma after her organs started to fail final month, and she or he’s at present in a specialist kidney unit at King’s Faculty Hospital in south London.
The 60-year-old pop star revealed docs have stated it’s 50/50 whether or not her daughter will get better.
Bacterial meningitis is an an infection of the membranes that defend the spinal twine and mind, which causes them to swell leading to life-threatening issues.
It’s thought of extra harmful than the extra uncommon viral meningitis, and one in 10 circumstances is deadly. Attainable unwanted side effects embrace mind injury, listening to loss, and limb amputation.
Now the singer, whose hits embrace Making Up Your Thoughts with the Eighties pop group, has spoken out about her ‘devastating’ ordeal, revealing she couldn’t be with out her daughter.
Chatting with the Mirror, she stated: ‘It’s been completely devastating. We had been instructed it was 50/50 whether or not she would pull by means of. We nonetheless don’t know when she’ll be coming house.
‘I sat by her bedside evening after evening prepared her to make it.
‘I couldn’t imagine this was her destiny, as a result of she’s such a beautiful individual. She’s outgoing, type, good-willed and vigorous. It simply felt so merciless.
‘I’ve been doing quite a lot of praying. She’s my world – we’re ridiculously shut. I simply couldn’t think about being with out her.’
In March, Jay seen a rash on her daughter’s arm, which she instantly realised was meningitis, as her husband drummer Dave Colquhoun, Josie’s father, had additionally contracted it 19 years earlier.
She was rushed to hospital, which docs revealed saved Josie’s life, and inside an hour her total physique was coated in a rash.
The next day, the teenager’s organs started to fail, and she or he was taken to intensive care, the place she was positioned in an induced coma, given oxygen, and handled with antibiotics.
Jay expressed her shock on the prognosis, when a couple of days earlier, Josie had been ‘match and wholesome,’ whereas excitedly making ready to go on vacation and begin a brand new job.
Josie was in a coma for 5 days, whereas Jay slept beside her in a chair, till docs eliminated her from the coma, however, there was no enchancment.
‘She didn’t come spherical for 2 days. They had been the 2 worst days of my life. There was no response. I knew it might go both means. However I couldn’t let myself assume that I'd lose her,’ she revealed.
Jay has additionally had well being battles of her personal, together with having a part of her tongue eliminated when she had mouth most cancers in 2018, and a spell of Covid-19 in 2021.
She stated that the worry of dropping her beloved daughter made this the ‘worst month of her life’, whereas saying she would ‘swap locations together with her in a heartbeat’.
The star additionally expressed her hopes that her daughter could be launched later this week, whereas hoping to boost consciousness that meningitis will be unfold by sneezing, coughing and kissing.
Nevertheless, for now, she’s simply glad that her daughter is alive, understanding how shut she got here to dropping her.
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