A few hours later, she told her parents Shaun and Pip she had a belly ache and her heart was hurting so they took her to hospital.
Milly-Rose, who was said to 'love life' and would 'light up any room' came home from school last Tuesday, February 14, feeling unwell. Her parents suspected she'd caught a 24-hour stomach bug which was doing the rounds. "We went into the waiting room and there were so many kids being sick we felt we were more likely going to catch something so we just decided to do it at home since the nurse said all her vitals were normal."
Within ten minutes of arriving, Shaun said Milly-Rose was being treated as a 'worst case scenario' by doctors, who suspected sepsis or meningitis. Medical professionals immediately started CPR, and Shaun and Pip were led away from their daughter's room. They worked for an hour before a decision to stop. She was pronounced dead at 1.24pm on Thursday morning.
"So many people have reached out, including people we don't even know," Shaun said. "We can't sit in the house for too long. We just want to make sure everything is done for her and we find out exactly what happened.