A teenage employee who missed the start of her job because she was witnessing her 16-year-old brother’s deadly heart attack has shared the heartbreaking messages she got from the young worker.
Chelsea Goggin, 18, had not arrived at work by 9 a.m. on Friday, which was “completely out of character,” according to Prue Taylor, owner of the Lady and the Hair Salon in Melton, west Melbourne.
Then, she saw a frenzied series of messages from Chelsea, the first of which was received 10 minutes before the start of her shift.
The first message says, “Call me asap.”
“My brother’s heart has stopped beating and he is not breathing,” came right after that.
The following text read: “I had to call 000,” followed by the last text: “Mums not here yet.”
The messages are still on Ms. Taylor’s phone, and she claims that every time she sees them, her eyes “flood with tears.”
Ms. Taylor was watching paramedics attempt to resuscitate her brother Nathan when she called Chelsea.
Nathan complained of discomfort that “was everywhere in his back” at about 8 a.m. on Friday, according to Chelsea, who claimed that Thursday night he was well.
Chelsea said to Ms. Taylor, “I turned around to grab him a drink, didn’t even leave the room and he fell.”
After she dialed 000, the ambulance immediately came, and paramedics attempted to resuscitate him at the family’s west Melbourne house in Melton for two and a half hours.
When Chelsea’s mother Helen Stephens arrived home from her early morning duty at a bakery, they ultimately brought Nathan to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
The heartbreaking news that Nathan wouldn’t survive was delivered to Chelsea and her mother when they arrived at the hospital.
Chelsea added, “They said they had to undertake an autopsy and investigation since they don’t know what it was.”
The aneurysm in Nathan’s heart is thought to have been triggered by a back spasm, according to medical professionals.
Currently, Ms. Taylor has a GoFundMe page set up to give Nathan the sendoff “he deserves.”
She said that after Ms Stephens’ separation from her boyfriend, which made it difficult to get the money for a home the pair was purchasing together, the family was just getting their financial feet under them.
They’ve really gone through a lot, so I truly feel for her, Ms. Taylor added.
“They obtained the home. They were quite happy. They eventually secured the funding.
They do not own much. For what they do have, they work really hard.
This marked the beginning of their new existence as a couple.
The family ‘were really beginning to see the rainbow after the storm and now they have been hit with this unspeakable tragedy,’ Ms. Taylor said on the GoFundMe page. It’s unfair,’
Ms. Taylor described Nathan as a history and video game enthusiast who was a genuinely wonderful child.
He was excited to start working at Kmart Melton, she said.
He was the sort of child who enjoyed going to school and never got into trouble. He was an exceptionally pleasant young man with a great heart who never voiced any complaints.
Those who knew Nathan will greatly miss him.
As soon as they heard the news, everyone in Ms. Taylor’s salon started to cry.
It would make Ms Stephens glad to know that people’s perspectives on life and how fleeting it may be are improved, Ms Taylor said, therefore she wants to relay the tale of what happened to Nathan.
“She hopes it helps one person realize not every day is past and tighten their embrace with their children.”