Posted on 12/27/2024 2:39:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
'Vibrant' woman, 20, with no symptoms died suddenly Poppy Eagle was at home for the summer when she died at her home in the North East
A university student back home for the summer holidays died suddenly, leaving her family devastated. Poppy Eagle had no previous cardiac issues but her heart stopped unexpectedly, and neither her family's efforts nor those of the emergency services could save her.
The 20-year-old was a sister to four and a cherished daughter to Vicki and Peter. Since her death on August 7 this year, her loved ones have channelled their grief into action by setting up the Poppy's Light Foundation. Their charity aims to enhance bereavement support and initiate better cardiac screening for young people.
Screening may have detected the hidden ailment that caused Poppy’s death, her family believes, and they are committed to preventing other families from enduring such heartbreak. The Eagles, from Washington in Tyne and Wear, are working hard to raise awareness and funds.
Her mother Vicki said: "Poppy's Light fundraising has been such a success and there's a real comfort in that.", reports Chronicle Live. She added: “What we have found is that there is really not a great deal of support around for bereaved children.
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"Poppy was such a loving person, so vibrant, so full of light. So the charity is a way of keeping that light shining while doing something that can support other children.
"Along with that there's the cardiac screening - for us it's the idea that screening could have at least given us some information that might have saved Poppy and it's to see if we could save another family from the feelings we have this Christmas."
Poppy's siblings Ollie, Faith, Heidi and Florence have all been closely involved - and Vicki said they had been such a close unit before tragedy struck, so processing their grief had been especially difficult. That is much of the inspiration behind the charity's drive to provide better bereavement support for youngsters. Speaking about passing the initial £25,000 fundraising target that the family had set, Vicki added: "It's just been the whole community coming together - so many family and friends, but even people who we had never met before have really helped get behind this. In January, my husband and son, and a few other dads and sons, will be climbing Kilamanjaro."
Vicki - who worked as a nurse but stepped back when Poppy died to help support her other children and found the charity - said her work family had been hugely supportive too.
Death by vibration?
I think this falls into the death by Suddenly category.
It happens all the time. Plenty of healthy fit 20 year olds with no previous medical history drop over dead. Its just like kids. How many really reach adulthood? But it’s not like the old days before barbers discovered the benefits of leaches, bleeding people, sucking on lead health sticks, or swallowing mercury. It is the middle ages and we now have modern healthcare. /s
May this beautiful young lady rest in peace.
It does? How often?
Keep in mind.....Safe and effective....
I hope she was inoculated and fully vaccinated against Covid.
(So many tens of thousands young teenagers died of Covid two years ago ya know.)
No mentioning of the covid vaccine or boosters. Those little tools of the left have sadly taken thousands of normally healthy young people. I’d bet less than half the nation realizes just how dangerous these so called vaccines really are.
I have a sister-in-law that recently had a booster. Another one has had the basic shot with boosters and has had covid two or three times. You’d think a light would come on if the shots do not prevent getting the basic virus.
I was under the impression it happened seldom. The whole time I was in 1st grade through high school, it didn't happen to anyone in my school. t doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but I don't see healthy kids dropping like flies, like you do.
If you look at the number of cases of dropped dead suddenly over the past 3 years, it’s obvious it’s very common. Nothing out of the ordinary at all.
How many covid boosters???
About 25% of the population has a PFO OR Patent Foraman Ovale. This is a hole between the left and right atrium that allows blood to bypass the lungs.
The stats are that about 30% of the people who have this die young.
Most people never know they have one.
It creates a problem in that blood clots go right to the brain and cause a stroke rather than creating pulmonary embolism.
All children in the womb have a PFO as their blood bypasses the lungs. For most children, the hole closes shortly after birth.
When a person has a PFO and blood clotting factor problems like Factor V Leiden or Von Willebrand disease, it is a death sentence.
Are you sure about those numbers? That would mean 7.5% of everyone in the U.S. dies young of that. That means 26 million people die of this die young. It would be a leading cause of death.
Have they ruled out Unexpectedly as a contributing factor?
“Ideopathic”
“I think this falls into the death by Suddenly category.”
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Yes, Nick as a part of his routine, googles “died suddenly” and similar phrase and posts the articles he finds here. And that’s why you see so many sudden death articles here. Kinda like if i would everyday google/duck-duck-go “fell down” and “fall injury” and post every article i found you’d think there was a sudden surge of people falling down. People have always been falling down and the frequency of falling wouldn’t have u]increased simply because you were seeing more articles reporting falls.
I just double checked them and yes, they are correct. I was quoting originally from memory and mine is beginning to fail..
“PREVALENCE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
PFO was found in 25 to 30 percent of individuals in an autopsy study and in a community-based transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) study”
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/patent-foramen-ovale#H2
The following findings were noted in the autopsy study of 965 normal hearts:
●Probe-patent PFO was present in 27 percent; the prevalence and size were similar in males and females.
“The reported prevalence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) in the general population is variable. It ranges between 8.6 and 42% according to the population studied and the imaging technique used.”
Size matters... >4mm is problematic.
Significant shunt was present in 55% of patients, mean length of PFO was 9.85 mm with a range between 1.03 and 18 mm,
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