Anna had been feeling slightly unwell stomach pains she'd had them a couple
of days my mum actually took her up to Wigan Infirmary just to the A&E the day
after they do a couple of scans and then they say it's her appendix so off she
goes to theatre back on the ward Anna was all twitching and I was asking
people what was wrong and they sent me away for like meant to get a cup of tea and
when I will coming back the anaesthetist ran past me so I just chased him I
don't know why I chased him I haven't got a clue but I chased him right up
to rainbow ward and I asked him then was it about my Anna and he
told me it was nothing to do with that I find out a good half an hour
later she'd suffered a cardiac arrest
she'd been 15 three days she was doing amazing at school very very high estimated
grades for her GCSEs fully talking more than competent teenager don't get me
wrong she was cheeky and give me a bit of grief but last year while she was
well above average brown belt at karate there were nothing she couldn't do
nothing at all she was just one of them gifted children but I know she come home
she couldn't talk she she couldn't do anything anything at all and I had
compared her to a newborn baby as in the newborn baby can't do anything for
themselves and neither could Anna
I'd spend six months easy six months just researching different words in
Google medical injuries children Pediatrics brain injury and there was
only one name that kept coming back so yeah I sent them an email that's how we
started with Slater and Gordon
I'd say Anna's had the best of everything and that is including the legal side of
it as I did research and research and research and every person I've met from
the legal team have always had Anna's best interests at heart
definitely she's our Anna my Anna and that's what the call her so that that is
the personal side of it she's not A.W. or she's not client X she's Anna
and they've always maintained that they've treated her as an individual
and that's what Anna is
everything that Anna needs Slater and Gordon have helped us guarantee that we will get
that that is there now the interim payments have been important making
sure Anna's got the best therapists the best equipment the right wheelchair
the parallel bars the plinth was a vehicle on the front we don't have to
rely on public transport Anna's bought her own house Slater and Gordon have oh
they've been great on every aspect of it though and it's sorted and Anna's
financially sorted for life and I thank Slater and Gordon for that because I wouldn't
have been able to do it without law that's a definite
and never ever complains never says why me doesn't live in self-pity for that in
itself is inspirational because everything was so unlikely unlikely to
do this not be able to do that well she's proved everybody wrong you
have you quite like that though don't you yeah yeah they're wrong we do to have this recovery were only a
dream they were to even beginning its reality
now what's your favourite motto being in a wheelchair won't stop me being in your chair won't stop you