12 h. ago ‘My daughter went into hospital with flu symptoms – and ended up a quadruple amputee’

Lily McGarry’s mother opens up about ‘terrifying’ moment hospital called to say her daughter was in a coma as family fundraise for treatment and also call on people to get meningitis vaccine

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13 h. ago ‘My daughter went into hospital with flu symptoms – and left a quadruple amputee’

Lily McGarry’s mother opens up about ‘terrifying’ moment hospital called to say her daughter was in a coma as family fundraise for treatment and also call on people to get meningitis vaccine

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14 h. ago 'Adorable' girl, 5, dies hours after being discharged with 'tonsillitis'

Rachael Mincherton's daughter Lila Marsland was taken to hospital after she started complaining of neck pain, a headache and had been vomiting

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6 d. ago Mum slams hospital after they say baby name 'not allowed' but others agree with decision

A new mum has asked for advice after she was told by a hospital that she wasn't allowed to name her daughter something that she had chosen

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1 week ago Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi rushed to hospital as she undergoes urgent surgery

Bindi Irwin was forced to undergo emergency surgery after being rushed to hospital following the rupture of her appendix, with the star unable to attend the Steve Irwin Gala

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1 week ago Steve Irwin's daughter has emergency surgery as hospital dash sees her miss tribute to dad

The late Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi Irwin has documented her struggles with endometriosis over the years but now it is a different illness she has been struck by

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3 w. ago Symptoms of bird flu everyone needs to know as experts warn public to prepare for a pandemic NOW

Experts have warned that bird flu is 'trying really hard' to reach pandemic potential, and urged global governments to put prevention tactics in place right away.

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3 w. ago Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it wellMotherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate when the dependent baby becomes an independent adult. Joan Didion survived this, as many mothers have, by keeping constant watch over her adopted daughter Quintana, fearing “swimming pools, high-tension wires, lye under the sink, aspirin in the medicine cabinet”. She also survived it, as fewer mothers have, by writing obsessively about the loss she feared. In her arid, fevered masterpiece Play It As It Lays, published when Quintana was four, the narrator’s breakdown is precipitated by her daughter’s long-term hospitalisation with an unnamed mental disorder. A Book of Common Prayer is about the disappearance of the protagonist’s criminal revolutionary daughter. “Marin was loose in the world and could leave it at any time and Charlotte would have no way of knowing” – a description that cou...

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3 w. ago She went out for a run and 24 hours later was dying and needed all her limbs amputated

Lily McGarry, 23, became a quadruple amputee when she developed septic shock having gone into hospital with "flu-like symptoms"

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last month Mum pins hopes on 'miracle' asthma treatment to save her little girl

Ariana Boyle’s mum, Sammi Gilmour, fears she will lose her daughter as a result of severe attacks that have hospitalised her more than 50 times.

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