As a result, she suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage. “It was just the usual routine of going out with your girlfriends,” her mother Andrea told Langdon during the interview. Her father Paul added: “We always knew where she was and who she was with. It was nothing out of the ordinary… Receiving that phone call at that time of night, it was one of those calls that no parent wants to receive, and we unfortunately received this call: “Come get ‘your girl “. Esra’s companions claimed she was having a panic attack, according to Langdon, “but after inhaling deodorant, her body started to shut down, she was in cardiac arrest, and no one at the party pajamas did not use the term cardiac arrest. »
Esra was being resuscitated when Andrea arrived at her side and the paramedics informed her mother that her daughter had undergone chrome plating surgery, something she had never heard of before. Esra was rushed to hospital with the belief that their infant daughter would make a full recovery. After all, she had a strong heart and lungs, so maybe she would survive. Esra’s brain damage was “irreparable”, according to Paul and Andrea, and they had to make the decision to turn off the machine after eight days on life support. Her parents described the pain of ending their daughter’s life as they struggled to speak and remember their saddest day.
Asked to accompany family and friends to the hospital for their final goodbye, Esra’s father said: “It was a very, very difficult thing for such a young soul to do. She was put on a bed so we could lie down with her. We cuddled her until the end. » Langdon, a mother of two young children, lost control of her emotions and began to cry because of the parents’ grief. Paul claims that after Esra died in the first week of April, Imogen, Seth and Charlie are “broken” and the whole family is “broken”. “It was really devastating, devastating for everyone involved, all his friends as well,” Paul said. “This is the most difficult and traumatic time a parent can go through. We didn’t sleep, we barely ate, we didn’t smile – we weren’t ourselves anymore… But it didn’t just affect us, it affected the community too. »
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