I know I always kept on at her to eat more. I used Wii Fit to keep an eye on her, and I told her if she fell into the underweight category for too long I would take her to the doctor. Kayleigh wanted to eat healthy as well which probably compounded the problem - trying to ensure she ate her lunch at school was difficult under Mr Haidon spoke to her and found out that she didn't want to eat jam sandwiched as jam has lots of sugar in it. So it was salad sandwiches from then on.
Because of her weight, Kayleigh did get sick quite often, and it took her longer to get over it than her sister. She just didn't have the energy to fight off the viruses as fast. She had lots of days off school, which I didn't like. She had the taken the Tuesday off sick with the flu and we made her go to school on the last day she was properly 'alive' because she was missing too much school. I sometimes wonder if I should have forced her to eat more, to have more 'fat' on her, that maybe that might have helped her fight off the flu that eventually compounded into her being too sick and her heart failing. Maybe we should have kept her at home that day, and she would still be here - I don't know.
This photo was taken in May, at an angle that I used to show Kayleigh how skinny she actually was - it was genetically skinny though, she certainly didn't starve herself. and this pic certainly shows her in the worst angle possible.
