| Location | Bradford |
| Age | 21 years |
| Date of Birth | 3/1987 |
| Date of Death | 4/2008 |
| Visitors | 7,798 since 05/08/2008 |
| Creator |
On the morning of Monday 31st March 2008 while getting ready to go to work, Laura Jane Ashworth
started having a very bad asthma attack. While her mum Rachel Leake called 999 and tried desperately
to revive her, Laura's airways blocked and she stopped breathing. On arrival at Bradford Royal
Infirmary ICU, the doctors confirmed Lauras brain had been starved of oxygen for so long that she
was completely brain damaged. After 3 days on life support... there was nothing more they could do.
You were only allowed 3 people at your bedside at any one time but they couldn't control us...
no one dare tell us to go! The most important people in your life were all around your bed in ICU,
we held your hand, stroked your face, I so badly wanted to pluck your eyebrows, you would have been
gutted knowing everyone saw them like that LOL!!! We laughed until we cried and cried until we
laughed! yet we all knew... once we walked out of that door... we would never see you again.
To rub salt in the wound, organ transplant authorities refused to allow Laura's Kidneys and
Pancreas go to her sick mother, who has been suffering kidney failure since becoming pregnant with
Laura! Rachel attends St Lukes hospital to have dialysis 3 times a week. Laura's dying wish was
for her mother to have one of her kidneys... what a beautiful gift this would have been to a mother
who has just lost her only child in such tragic circumstances, for Rachel to know that part of Laura
was still living on inside her and for Macie to grow up with a healthy Grandma.
Laura was my best friend, she was my soul mate, she would have been my sister-in-law at one point...
and she was the loving mother to my Neice Macie Faith Murch. She lived at Brogden Hall Farm,
Bradford, with her beautiful mum Rachel, Grandfather Jack and 2year old daughter Macie. She was a
beautiful person, full of happiness and laughter, she didn't hate anyone, never had a bad word
to say about anyone, she loved her friends and would do anything for anyone but more so, she loved
her mother and daughter so very much.
Laura had only just turned 21 just 3 weeks prior to her death. She loved life and lived it to the
full. Her words of wisdom to everyone she met were "Live life to the full, you don't get a
second chance" how right was she!!! and she sure lived her life to the absolute fullest!!! I
just hope your looking down with no regrets girl!!! Macie loves you unconditionally, she will never
forget you, ever. Each night she stays with us we say goodnight and blow kisses to the stars. She
says Bob Marley is looking after you.
R.I.P gorgeous. I love you my princess xxx
xxxxxx
im on my way bk from newcasel been working all weekend cant beleave its been a year since you left us not a day gos past where i dont think of you laura r.i.p xxxxxxx
1 year on xxx RIP Lora xxx
well... it's here... exactly a year today Lora. I just can not get my head around it at all. I've had to work today otherwise I'd have lost the plot. I miss you today more than ever before... it's been hard as owt today... really hard. Picked little Macie up... if only you could see her, she is so big now, beautiful just like you, just like her beautiful mummy.
I hope they are taking care of you up there in heaven Lora because you deserve to be at rest now, you had a few ups and downs while you were here but you made the most of life "LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL, YOU DONT GET A 2ND CHANCE" you sure did just that. I'm proud to have had a mate like you, they don't come along very often you know. I miss our Sundays, laying in bed wi Macie watching all the soaps, venturing downstairs for Sunday dinner what my mum used to make. I just miss you ringing me for your random chats, asking them random questions you used to ask... don't know where you got them from!!! you were so funny!!! I just miss you so much!!!
Few of us are going up wibsey tonight for a few drinks, not going on a mad one cos I'll just go too silly and will end up locked up.
ANyway babes, I'll speak to ya later. Come visit me sometime...
RIP angel xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hia
Cant believe it will av been a year since u left us on friday its gone round so fast. The day you went in hospital I got a txt sayin Ive got sum bad news but i wud av never fort it wud av been as bad as it was, I didnt want 2 believe wot i was hearing, it was the worst I fort this shouldnt be happin 2 such a young lass, I really fort u wud pull through wen I sat next 2 u I so badly wanted u 2 wake up.Everybody missis u so much, who cud not miss u anyway u wo such a lovely lady, Well on friday im gona get sum drinks down me and fink of you lora, love u so so much speak soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1 year on....
Now then Lora... It was this time last year you went into hospital, 31st March 2008... I got that call at work from our Sean saying you had been taken in because you'd had a bad asthma attack... It was the day before when I'd last seen you. You came to pick Macie up from ours... you had waited for me to come home because you wanted to see my new tattoo... well a year on and exactly a year to the day I got the same tattoo extended... I dint even men to have it done on the same day... weird eh! Not a single minute goes past when I don't think of you. What I'd give to have 5mins with you Lora... just to tell you how special you were, just to tell you how much I love ya and what a good mate you were, always there. You never had any luck though, that car crash, your mum being poorly, other stuff, boyfriends, being broken into xmas eve, it was one thing after another! yet you always kept going! you did Macie proud, you always went out to work to support yourself and Macie, people slated you cos you went out every weekend, you went out because you had so much love and support from us lot, you knew Macie was in safe hands at ours at the weekend. Macie is coming along, she's just so good! I just hope she remembers the times she spent with you... she will always know who her mummy is, I will tell her stories about you and make sure she knows what a special person you were. I just can't beleive you aren't with us anymore, it just don't seem to sink in. We will be having a few drinks on friday to celebrate the time we spent with ya.
Sleep tight princess, love you always
ya best mate
Leann
xxxxx
missing you
i dont evan no wot to say to u betty this is getting harder, i still think every day WHY WHY WHY
i cant belive tomora is a year to the day u went to hospital thats the day it all went wrong.wen i seen you in the hosp layed in bed i couldnt belive wot i was seeing i couldnt evan walk up to ur bed i just froze, wen me and leann were alowed up to ur bed on our own we were lafing to each uther saying ud go mad if u new we were looking at u like that wen u needed ur hair brushing leann wonted to pluck ur eyebrows hahaha if we didnt laf wed of just sat there and cryed u still looked ace tho betty all we did for days was sit nexted to u holding ur hands and kissing ur forhead i rember it like it was yesterday i cant belive its a year already, friday ill be having a few drinks for you betty the 3,4,08 was the werst day of my life so a year on 3.4.09 things are still s**t but u will live on for every in my heart i love and miss u so much xxxxxxxxx
one year on
hi hon its allens birthday monday and it'l be a year since we last saw you remember the sunday last year you brought allen his birthday gift up 3 bottles wine its seams so long but yet its gone so fast we talked about ya yellow BAG your mum gave it to me but of corse you no that you'l see me using it every day {well almost every day} i love that bag and hopfully keep it well maintained so maybe Macie can use it too. Macie just looks like you. well we'l chat soon macie's been to nursery t'day she comes home moody {TIRED} She's like you when it comes to sleep" we all miss you and love you lots xxxxxxxxxxxx
Missing You Lots......
Its hard to beleive its a few days away from when you left us time goes so quickly it wont be long before we are all with you,macie is coming along fine,she looks just like you,and she is so bright,and is always telling us she loves her mummy,everybody is taking great care of her laura you no that.Im goin up to your house over the weekend to put some flowers in your garden,take care miss you lots.xxx
Hello Angel
Well its been one of them day laura lol... been in a world of my own all day just been cleaning up and looking at pics of u 4 the last hour and reading all the things ppl put on here and face book i always forget about ur face book one....I think the next few week laura are going to be so hard for so many ppl leann emma ur mum and leanns family and urs and all ur friends i no it is going to be hard we all miss you more an anything in ever i no u will be up there watching everyone u love and care about angle..... u no as i always tell u i will never for get u and i will always always come on here and talk to you and u always have such a big place in my heart laura you are one in a million my sweet R.I.P untill i see you agen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXxXxXxXxXx Always thinking of u........ xxxxxxxxxx
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