Macey-Leigh Natalie Jenkins

Macey-Leigh was my first grandughter, she was my pride and joy, my treasure and soul.

MACEY-LEIGH 13 TODAY...A TEENAGER AT LAST!

Macey was a happy year 7 school girl who loved life and everything that came with it. She was small
for her age but had great spirit and loved playing sport and moving around.
She was on the Netball, Rounders, Tennis, Swimming, Cross-Country, Athletics and Gymknastics teams
at school. Her favourite colour was pink, Her favourite food was Chiken noodles with sweetcorn but
she never said no to her sunday dinner!
Her best friends in school we Kerry, Laurie, Francesca, Aaron, Kyle, Peter and Ellie.

She will be missed by her Nana and Grandad, Mum (Kera, 32) Dad (Lee, 33) Brothers, Joe (16), Aaron
(14) Tom (5) and Gregg (2) and all of her friends and the rest of her family.

She loved to sing and loved to play the flute and the piano.

Macey was enjoying school, in year 7 when she began to feel very tired, she was weak and unable to
lift simple things like her school bag. Kera (Maceys mother) kept her off school for a few days
suspecting she may just have caught a bug.

The next week Macey had a rash, kera brought her to me for a second opinion and we decided it was
probably something to with the fact that Macey had left her hayfeaver tablets at school while she
had been ill and was having a reaction to the pollen as she regularly did around this time of year.


Macey had, had a sore throat for a few weeks and began to get headaches because of the pain,
eventually Kera(macey mother) took her to the doctors and she was told her daughter had tonsillitis.
She refused to let macey go into hospital to get her tonsills removed as they were going away the
next week for 4 weeks to see her uncle in Australia, it was to be the trip of a life time for them.

The week they got back Macey went to her best friend Kerry's 12th birthday party. She came home ill
with a sore throat again and a temperature of 104.2 F.

At this point we knew something was not right and backtraked on what had been going on. We rang the
doctor who told us to check for swollen glands however we could not find any and so he boooked Macey
in for an appiontment the following Friday. However through this short space of about 9 days she had
a dramatic loss of apetited and she began to lose weight, not rapidly but enough for us to notice.

We gave macey a neurofen because she was allergic to paracetamol. She came out in a more obvious
rash and we rang the doctor straight away and he told us to bring her to him now.

When we got to him he took and instant blood test and her told Kera that macey had the symptoms of
Glanular fever and was told it was common in adolecent children.

We went home and waited for her two weeks to pass before we returned to the doctor.However when we
returned and she was still ill he said that it may take up to a month and we had to ring him if
anything else happened or if we had any concerns.

In this time Macey was missing alot of school and insisted she went back to try a day at least.
After a few days Kera decided to let Macey return to school and was happy with the progress she
appeared to be making however Macey was about to take a turn for the worst without even telling her
mother.

On the morning of Friday July 25th, Kera went to awake Macey for her final day of year 7. She
noticed that Macey was very sensitive to the bright light form the ceiling and as she walked over to
see if she was alright she noticed the smell of sick.

Kera walked to the other side of the bed to find bukets of sick which Macey had been hiding so she
was able to attend school.

Kera walked over to Macey and saw her pale skin, which she rarely saw as Macey being a typical girl
wore makeup whenever she came down stairs.
When Kera re-examined the rash that had gotten worse she decided to take Macey to the doctors
again.

When she got there and the doctor examined her they relised that Macey had a rash that did not
dissapear when a glass was pressed against her skin and she was unable to detect some sounds.

Macey was taken to hospital where she had a Lumbar puncture, a blood test to confirm the doctors
observations.

Over the nest few weeks Macey's condition got worse and eventually she was put on a ventalator to
assist with her breathing.she was also given medication to control the seizures her little body was
goin through.

Macey through this time wet the bed which we were told was unusual as this is normally assosiated
with the younger patients.

Macey was very clumsy and dropped almost everything we gave her, she also couldnt remeber what she
had just been doing.

She was very angry one minute and very happy the next which was sad to watch as she was usually such
a beautiful happy person.

Over the weeks of August she lost her hearing, could hardly speak and was unable to speak properly.

At this point i left my grandaughters bedside and sat a little away to rethink our earlier actions.
Some may think i was selfish however i wanted to remember my macey-Leigh just the way she was.

Unfortunatly on the morning of the 18th August 2008 macey-Leigh lost her battle with Meningitis and
lost her battle to life. We love her so very much and she is dearly missed by everyone who knew
her.

She was always smiling and had permanent dimples from her smile! Her curly red hair was beautifully
shaped into ringlets and her blue eyes were piercing especially when she enhanced them with her
beautiful makeup skills that she treasured to dearly.

She was a true beauty queen and wanted to grow up have children and become a cosmetic engineer!

Macey-Leigh was lay to rest on 1st September in her bridesmaid dress she was intending to wear to
her cousins wedding in November. she was lay in her beautiful wooden coffin with MACEY-LEIGH
engraves on it with her snoozy blankie and a number of personel items from friends.

For the funeral people were asked to wear bright clothing. All of her friends wore the illuminous
tutu's and leg warmers that they had previously worn to Blue one night out. They bought a lifesize
teddy bear and dressed it in Macey's outfit so she could be part of it.

Pink roses were at the church however everyne lay a Lily as that is what Macey wanted to call Kera's
baby if it is a girl.

LOTS OF LOVE NANA FROM YOUR MUMMY'S ACCOUNT


Macey's year 7 form tutor; Macey was a bubbly girl who i never had any trouble with in my class. She
had a wonderful reputation and was respected by her friends, older children in the school and by all
faculty.

Francesca, Macey's oldest friend; I met Macey when we were just one at a swim class, our mums got
talking and we have been best friends ever since, there wasnt a thing i didnt know about Macey, but
even i didn't notice her health. I love her so much and will have a peice of my heart missing
forever.

Jenny, Swim Coach; Macey-Leigh was one of the most inspirational girls in my club. She tried hard
every session and was on her way to achieving great things with her talent.

Doctors at hospital Macey was treated; Macey-Leigh, we will always remeber her as the girl who
ofered to give up her bed for another patient waiting, the girl who smiled when we told her she had
meningitis, the girl who continued trying to do homework even though she was to weak and sore to
move very far. She will be remebered at ***** hospital for a long time to come.