Eve was 21 years old when she lost her life to a blood clot. Her mother Melanie remembers her amazing daughter.
Our beautiful daughter Eve had a fall in July of 2019. At the time, she had been on the combined oral contraceptive pill for two years.
She was sent home after spending 23 hours in the hospital and was simply told to rest her leg. Eve had been complaining of numbness and pins and needles in her calf.
Three hours after her discharge, Eve went into cardiac arrest at home and never recovered. She died on the 21st of July 2019, at just 21 years old. Eve had a blood clot in her leg (deep vein thrombosis, DVT) and also in her lung (pulmonary embolism, PE).
There were many risk factors: A lower limb injury, a family history of DVT, and the combined hormonal contraceptive pill.
We miss her every second. She was an amazing daughter and sister, and by sharing Eve’s story I would like other young women to consider their options for contraception.
