The mum of a 22-year-old has shared her grief after the 'healthy' young woman died following a series of heart attacks that 'came out of the blue', according to her family and friends. Jodie McCann, mum to four-year-old Freddie, lived in Nottinghamshire and had just enrolled to start training as a nurse when she was admitted to hospital in March with acute pancreatitis.
As reported by the Manchester Evening News, Jodie had been keeping her own worried mother, Sloane, updated with her recovery when the pair shared a devastating phone call. 'Mum, I think I'm having a heart attack. I'm going to die', Sloane heard Jodie say, before she told the 22-year-old to call for help. Just over two weeks later, Jodie had suffered a total of 'five' heart attacks - four of which came in the harrowing moments before she died - according to her traumatised mother.
"Jodie had been in hospital for two days before everything started going downhill," mum Sloane Warbrick, 40, said.
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"She called me and said 'Mum, I think I'm having a heart attack. I'm going to die. I told her to press the button and call for the nurse.
"The next day, I got a phone call from the hospital staff to say that she'd been found facedown in her bed, unresponsive after a cardiac event. Jodie had to be resuscitated for 20 minutes before being transferred to intensive care."
Jodie, who was originally from Salford but by then living in Nottinghamshire, needed help to breathe and was put on a ventilator. She was also left needing dialysis machines as her liver and kidneys had failed, her mum continued.
After several days and a hospital transfer, Jodie woke up again on Mother's Day to find out she needed a tracheotomy procedure. But the next day, Sloane says the breathing tube 'slipped out' and Jodie began to 'suffocate', resulting in another 'four heart attacks'.
"You don't expect your daughter to pass away after going into hospital for pancreatitis," Sloane said. "She was healthy and used to walk everywhere.
"She was too young. Her little boy is only four-years-old. She had so many things to look forward to."
Now, her friends and family - including her seven younger siblings - have been left heartbroken, telling of their 'loud and bubbly' Jodie who will be missed by those who knew her. "I can't process it," continued Sloane, also from Salford. "It's one day at a time.
"I wait for phone calls from her that never come. Jodie was as large as life, she didn't have a filter. She said what she thought and if you didn't like it, tough. She was amazing."
Best friend Skye Smith began a fundraiser to help the family pay for funeral costs and little Freddie's future. The pair met at school in Year 9 and were close ever since.
"You knew that Jodie was there, she was loud and bubbly," Skye said. "She always put everybody else before herself. If you had a problem, she wouldn't care if she was struggling, she'd put you first."
The fundraiser has grown to almost £700, with Skye hoping to achieve a £3,000 goal. Sloane has called people's generosity 'overwhelming'.
"I want to do anything I can to help her family," added Skye, "whether that's to help pay for their travel to the funeral or to put some money in the bank for Freddie or buy him some new toys, he's lost his mum."
"Jodie was the kind of friend who, even if you didn't speak to the for a while, they never left your side."
