We are extremely sorry to learn that baby Eoin passed away last night at home in the company of his mother Orla, father Paul, and older brother Jamie.
Rest in peace, Eoin; fly high with all the angels who have gone before you.
In May this year, Eoin started to feel unwell.
His appetite wasn’t great, and he was sleeping a bit more at very high temperatures than at very low temperatures He was admitted to the hospital twice but it was put down to a virus.
A few weeks into July, Eoin still wasn’t himself, so we took him to our GP and discovered he had tonsillitis.
A few days after that, we noticed Eoin’s belly was hard and swollen.
It was a Friday evening, so we thought we better get him checked out just in case, so we rang the doc and were told to go to A&E, which we did and we were looked after by amazing nurses and doctors.
On Saturday morning, the doctor came in to check on him and asked if they could an ultrasound sound.
I was on my way out when I got the phone call that the doctor wanted to speak to the two of us.
Unfortunately, we got the news that no parents wanted to hear; they had found a tumour on Eoin’s liver and we needed to go to our Lady’s Children Hospital in Crumlin.
Sunday morning, Paul, myself and Eoin headed off to Crumlin. We met our consultants, who were going to be looking after Eoin.
