Husband suddenly dies and leaves wife with 8 kids – his hidden disease was overlooked by everyone
. “Then he’d sit and play games and read until bedtime. He had so much energy.”
Heartbreakingly, the family’s ideal life was shattered into a million pieces when James suddenly died.
Just twelve weeks after their youngest child was born, James woke up around 4:30 one morning and felt numb. He then stopped breathing suddenly.
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Cloe performed CPR on her husband while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. “I wanted to scream and cry but knew I needed to keep calm,” Cloe said. James died in his bed when he was just 31 years old.
His death was sudden, especially because he was a healthy young man, or at least that’s what everyone taught so.
In fact, no one had noticed before, but James suffered from high blood pressure.
He had something called hypertensive heart disease, a kind of heart disease caused by prolonged elevated blood pressure.
Many people people who suffer from the condition have the disease without knowing it, and such was the case with James.
And because James didn’t get regular physical examinations — which are recommended for all adults — no one knew how bad the situation was.
“In my darkest moments I wondered how on earth I would do this without James. But I looked at those eight little faces all depending on me and I knew I had to do this for them and for James,” Cloe said.
“He loved being a dad more than anything and has made me a strong enough parent to face this job alone,” she added.
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The entire community gathered together and raised around $10,000 for the family which they used to renovate the family garden to give the children a nice place to play.
