Radio Personality Jeridah Adayi has opened up on how losing her daughter affected her young family.
The mother of four says she blamed herself for the death at some point.
Speaking during an interview with Citizen Digital, she narrated
“Am a mother of four children but I lost my second baby when she was two years four months, a big child. That was a long time ago, in 2008. If she lived she would be 16 years today but I still deliberately make her part of the family. My children know she is the second born so my two daughters know they are not the eldest of my daughters, there is someone else who went ahead of them,”.
Although the little girl was unwell Jeridah did not think the circumstances that arose after that would lead to her demise.
“I think the most difficult thing about me losing my child is that I don’t think everything I could to save her life. Sometimes I feel like did I fail my own child, is there anything else I should have done to keep her alive, it just happened so fast, she was unwell, then we go to the hospital, and they said she needs to be admitted so we put her in an ambulance and go to the hospital, for her admission,” she explained.
Unknown to her an accident that would change the course of things was bound to happen.
“That time she was fine as I held her then on our way the ambulance hit another car head-on. Unfortunately, she slipped off my hands as a result of the impact and was hit in the head, she did fall but with that impact, everything stopped but I did not know because she had fallen asleep, it happened so fast, by the time we got to the hospital, the child was technically dead,” she added.
The doctors tried resuscitating the baby and thankfully she came back to life but there was a problem, the doctors said the brain had been damaged and it had been severe to an extent that she was not going to live a normal life.
She was put in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for seven days but everything went from bad to worse as she was only alive on life support machines.
Under the guidance and advice of the doctors, they agreed to have the machines switched off because there was hardly a thing that could be done to better her health.
