CATHERINE WILLIAMSON SARAH WARWICK PODCAST
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When Leamington’s Catherine Williamson embarked on her new podcast, Gobsmacked! little did she anticipate how much it would reignite her own buried emotions. In this series, she introduces us to some of the guests which have most inspired her.
This month we meet Sarah Warwick from Leamington. Listen back to Sarah’s podcast interview: Saoirse Welland - Gobmacked!
As Sarah Warwick reflects on the recent first anniversary of her daughter’s death, the rawness of her grief is still undimmed.
Memories of her beautiful six-year-old Neive, adorn almost every inch of her Leamington home as the family desperately strives to come to terms with this most agonising of losses. Photos, framed drawings and many of Neive’s treasured items are ever-present reminders.
It’s every parent’s unthinkable tragedy – but one that has redefined Sarah’s sense of purpose – to keep her daughter’s precious memory alive, not least for her younger daughter Molly, who was just nine months old when her big sister died.
After presenting with worrying symptoms, including headaches, vision impairment and facial palsy, a raft of tests eventually
diagnosed her withHigh-risk Embryonal Parameningeal Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive soft tissue tumour.
She reacted well to intensive treatment including nine rounds of IVA chemotherapy at Birmingham Children’s Hospital as part of the FaR RMS Trial, followed by six weeks of Proton Beam Therapy at The Christie in Manchester and, in March last year, was given the all-clear. But it was just three months later that the symptoms returned, an end of treatment scan in September finally confirming the family’s darkest fears – the Rhabdomyosarcoma had spread and the prognosis was bleak.
October 24th 2023 was to be the family’s last day with her beloved Neive. “We knew that she had deteriorated,” she recalls. “There was a change in her. I spent the morning lying with her, cleaned her face to make her look nice and put her hair clips in which she always liked. We put some of her favourite films on - Moana, The BFG and we just let them play in the background for her.
“All the family came round, we then sat around her bed. She was warm and comfortable and we were all with her. We all just cocooned her in love and she slipped away at 7pm. I don't think anything can ever prepare you as a mother to watch your children take their last breath. It's just a profound hole in my heart that will always be there.”
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