Revered Radio Citizen presenter Jeridah Andayi has opened up about the loss of her second-born daughter and the numbers it did on her and her family.
Jeridah has revealed that dealing with the sudden loss of her baby girl has not been easy, but she thanks God for enabling her and her family by the day.
The radio host, in an interview with Citizen TV‘s Cynthia Mwangi, narrated painfully how she watched helplessly as her daughter breathed her last.
According to Jeridah, her daughter suddenly fell ill, and was forced to rush her to the hospital.
As Jeridah and paramedics tried to rush her daughter to the hospital in an ambulance, tragedy struck as they were involved in a head-on collision with another car.
The radio host said the accident in fact caused even more harm to her daughter who was already not feeling well.
“On our way to the hospital, the ambulance we were riding in got involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle. I was holding my daughter when she slipped out of my hands but didn’t fall from my grasp. I didn’t think about it much at the time since my girl was sleeping but I later realised that the impact of the accident had done a number on her,” Jeridah disclosed.
Jeridah went on to note that a paramedic who was in the hospital noticed her daughter had gotten worse after the accident and signaled the driver to hurry to the hospital.
She stated that everything happened so fast that she realised her daughter was technically dead by the time they got to the hospital.
Andayi’s daughter could not be saved despite doctors spending over an hour in the emergency room trying to resuscitate her.
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Not long after doctor’s efforts, Jeridah Andayi had to deal with the saddest news of her life when she was informed her daughter was technically a cabbage.
Andayi said the doctor advised her and her hubby to put their daughter on life support or sadly let her go since her brain was completely dead, but the couple chose the former.
However sad it was, Andayi and hubby finally agreed to let their daughter go and put her off the life support machines after seven days.
“I tried to get in the ER but the doctor refused, and I kept trying until they finally let me in. The doctor asked for the child’s father, who was not there at the time but joined me later before telling us that our daughter was technically a cabbage. Everyone said we put her in ICU and we did and she stayed in there for seven days and I watched my daughter die slowly in those seven days,” Andayi said.