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Covid: Sister raises younger siblings alone after mum's death
For Chelsea-Leigh SLOT เกมใหม่ ทดลอง เล่น สล็อตฟรี Richardson and her four siblings, life has changed beyond belief since their mum Sarah died with Covid in October, aged 42.
"Mum was our everything, then all of a sudden she was gone," she said.
Faced with the loss of their only parent, the 21-year-old went from big sister to the sole carer of her younger brothers and sisters - Kala-Jai, 19, Jayden, 17, Preston-James, 14, and seven-year-old Bobbee-Mae -overnight.
Chelsea was determined the five of them would not be split up, so she became the glue to hold them together.
She says: "I pulled my big girl knickers up and said to myself: 'Come on Chels, you can do this. Be brave.'
"My mum raised us alone and always taught us that no matter what life throws at you, you've to dust yourself down and come back stronger. If I took myself away from the kids, where would they go? It just wasn't an option. I had to make sure we all stayed together."
Her mum's symptoms started with the loss of her senses of smell and taste and over the next two weeks got worse. Towards the end of her self-isolation she deteriorated quickly and was taken into hospital struggling to breathe.
Two days later she died.
"Mum was on a ventilator and the doctor phoned and told me to prepare for the worst. I just froze. It absolutely broke my heart. I remember getting off the phone and screaming. At that point the kids didn't know how poorly mum was so I had to sit them down and explain.
"That night I made sure they'd all had something to eat and put them to bed but I couldn't sleep."
In the early hours came the call Chelsea-Leigh had dreaded. She was told to come to the hospital to say her goodbyes.
"After mum passed I had to come home to tell the kids she had died. I can't even put into words how horrendous that was. There was just silence, confusion and tears. It was the most horrible, rotten feeling that none of us could escape from."
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