Heartbreak as mum with 'beautiful soul' dies after collapsing at airport
dailyrecord.co.ukThe devastated parents of a mum who tragically died after collapsing at an airport have described her as a "a beautiful soul" who had "so much love for her daughters".Melissa Kinsella suffered a heart attack while on holiday in Turkey with partner Jay Smith, his family and their three children - Chloe, nine, Beau, four, and Romi, two.The 30-year-old was due to fly home on Monday, May 15, but she suddenly fell to the floor at Antalya Airport and was immediately rushed to hospital.
Here, doctors discovered she has swelling on her brain and heart.The mum, from Moreton in Merseyside, was put on a ventilator and her family set up a crowdfunding campaign to bring her back to the UK.
Melissa was then flown home by air ambulance on May 24 and immediately taken to Arrowe Park Hospital. Despite medics best efforts, she sadly passed away just two days later on Friday, Mary 26.Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Melissa's mum, Michelle Heathcote, 51, and her husband, Steven, 52, paid tribute to their 'loving and smart' daughter.Michelle, who lives in Leasowe, said: "She lived for her girls, she was hardworking, had a dirty laugh and she was such a good mummy.
She had so much love for those girls. She was very hard working doing beauty and hair, she was a little whiz kid with the colours."She was so clever, she actually went to uni three times, trained to be an accountant but then got pregnant, then trained in nursing and got pregnant again before going back to beauty.
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