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Zahra was born prematurely and had a Group Strep B infection developing into Meningitis in the first week of her life. She was left with catastrophic brain damage and it was highly likely that she wouldn’t be able to ever breathe unsupported, feed, see, hear or walk let alone sit up by herself. We were asked if we would remove her from life support- which we did. Zahra, like most children, decided to do things her own way and she amazingly continued to breathe unaided.

From then on Zahra kept an extraordinary amount of health professionals very busy and on their toes. She had regular physio, a team of about five consultants, the Demelza home care team, the nurses from our two local children’s hospices. Zahra also kept our local pharmacy pretty occupied and all this was accomplished when she was out of hospital.

Zahra spent half her life in hospital – but in her spare time she liked to keep her mother busy too (by making her learn all sorts of complicated names for all the health problems that Zahra had). Hypothyroidism, Diabetes insipidus, Epilepsy, Panhypopituitarism, Vesicoureteral reflux just to name a few.

A year and a week after removing Zahra off the ventilator, she passed away in her parents arms. When Zahra died, her hospital files were heavier than she was.

Zahra's greatest achievement was to bring people from all walks of life together to help her. The website I have created (inspiredbyzahra.com) is about all the people who cherished and helped Zahra, how she has changed us, how she has inspired us. In turn, we hope to create awareness of the local organisations who came to our rescue, to fundraise a little bit by participating in running events and to generate support.

Thank you.