A 16-YEAR-OLD girl who lost her unborn baby after a car crash then contracted the potentially-fatal MRSA bug while in hospital.
Stacey Ellington's mum thought her daughter was going to die, and says the teenager has been 'scarred for life'.
Rosie (45) has described events of the past weeks as a "nightmare" and "terrible".
After the crash on January 14, Stacey underwent
a ten-and-a-half hour operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, before being transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital at Cambridge.
She was unconscious for a fortnight and may have caught antibiotic resistant MRSA in either hospital.
"I thought she was going to die," said Rosie, adding her daughter had been "scarred for life" physically and emotionally.
She remembered Stacey saying three times – 'Mummy, I'm dying'.
Two days after Stacey had first gone to hospital, she lost baby Darren.
Stacey and boyfriend David Loasby were involved in the A47 crash in January. Police had followed a disqualified driver going the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
The 17-year-old driver – who cannot be named for legal reasons – has admitted dangerous driving. He will be sentenced on April 5.
Police have also launched an investigation.
A funeral was held for Darren on Wednesday.
The youth apologised to the family after a court appearance at Lynn last Tuesday, saying he was sorry and would like a chance to make it better.
But Rosie, from Wisbech, said: "Stacey says: 'How is he going to make it better? I just want my baby back'."
She added the car her daughter had been in had split in two – the front and back ending up 60 feet apart.
She was "so lucky to be alive" and it was the "only good thing to come out of it at all", though she could not do "normal, teenage things".
"Both hospitals wouldn't give us any hope that she would live. There were lots of times in Addenbrooke's I thought 'this is it, she's going to die'," Rosie said, adding Stacey's whole family had been with her.
Addenbrooke's could not comment on Stacey's possible contraction of MRSA because of patient confidentiality. A Queen Elizabeth spokesman could not comment either. It is acknowledged the hospital has had cases and now screens patients deemed most at risk.
