The Coroners Inquest

I got the phone call today. The Coroner has finished his investigation into Kayleigh's death and we will finally have the death certificate next week. He said the hold up was getting the information out of the ambulance service - he only got it this week, after requesting it this time last year. According the ambulance records the Calwell Ambulance was not available as it was already at the hospital dropping off another patient. The closest one to us was at Kambah and it came as quickly as it could. It begs the question - is there only one ambulance at Calwell????? and if so, why????

The official cause of Kayleigh's death, as to be shown her the death certificate is Global Ischemia (Brain damage caused by lack of blood supply) caused by prolonged cardiac arrest - by our measure by the time the ambulance got here Kayleigh had been not breathing for almost 30 minutes. She never had a chance. The report also outlined that she had the early signs of pneumonia in both lungs and signs of asthma consistent with bronchial-asthmatics. The cause for her heart stopping is unknown and will never be known. The heart itself was fine, but any electrical problems cannot be determined after death.

So where does that leave us - with more questions that do not have an answer and it makes me sad and angry. WE will never know what really caused her death and we will never know if the outcome would have been different if the ambulance was only 3 minutes away. We may have got Kayleigh back but she have been a 'vegetable', or she may have been OK. We will never know.