A year after their loved one died in hospital, N.S. family struggles to understand what went wrong – CBC
‘I never want another family to experience that,’ says Sheila Lees, whose daughter Shavonne died Aug. 28, 2023
Nov 20, 2024
Every time they walk by the bedroom of their 30-year-old daughter, Shavonne, at their home in Westville, N.S., Wesley and Sheila Lees feel heartbreak from her loss and the way she died.
The room is how she left it, with a cherished doll on her bed and posters of her favourite movie, Frozen.
“We know nothing brings her back. But we also know that she can be the person to create change,” said Sheila Lees.
The couple did not realize how ill their daughter was when she told them she wasn’t feeling well and needed to go to the emergency room at the nearby Aberdeen Regional Hospital in August 2023.
Unbeknownst to them, Shavonne, who had physical and mental disabilities, had contracted sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by the body’s overreaction to infection.
