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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Charlotte Hadfield

Mum came home to find daughter had 'turned blue'

A mum told of the terrifying moment she thought her daughter was going to die after she turned "completely purple."

Abbi Shearer, 28, had nipped out to the pharmacy to get some medication for her daughter Evie-Kate, eight, when she returned home to find her struggling to breathe.

In the hours that followed, Abbi said her "world fell apart" as she was told by doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital that her daughter had contracted sepsis and she likely wouldn't survive the night.

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