Personality on the radio Jeridah Adayi has spoken up about how the death of her daughter devastated her young family. At some time, the mother of four said she blamed herself for the tragedy.
Speaking during a recent interview, Andayi opened up on her tragic loss.
“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,”she said.
Although the little child was ill, Jeridah did not believe the events that followed would lead to her death.
“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 attempted to resuscitate the baby, and thankfully she regained consciousness, but there was a problem: the brain had been damaged, and the damage was severe enough that she would not be able to live a normal life.
She was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for seven days, but things only became worse as she was only kept alive by life support devices.
