Devastated parents forced to pull the plug on their 13-year-old daughter after sleepover horror
Anyy Langdon from Australia couldn’t hide how sad she was when she talked to a mom and dad who had to make the painful choice to end the life of their daughter, whom they had given birth to 13 years before.
The girl died after giving in to a viral trend called “chroming,” and Langdon, who is also a mom, found it hard to hold back her tears.
Andrea and Paul Haynes told the host of A Current Affair about how their 13-year-old daughter Esra Haynes died after following a social media trend called “chroming,” which means breathing in harmful chemicals through the mouth or nose to get high.
The Montrose Football Netball Club, which Esra co-captained, called her “determined, fun, cheeky, and talented.” She was a young athlete who raced BMX bikes with her brothers and led her team to a national aerobics championship in Queensland.
On March 31, Esra went to a friend’s house for a sleepover. To get a fatal high, she sniffed an aerosol deodorant can. She then had a heart attack and brain damage that can’t be fixed.
“It was just her normal thing to do, which was to hang out with her friends,” her mom Andrea told Langdon. Paul, her dad, said, “We always knew where she was and who she was with.” There was nothing strange about it…”No parent ever wants to get that call at that time of night, but we did get it: “Come get your daughter.””
“But after inhaling deodorant, her body was actually starting to shut down; she was in cardiac arrest, and no one at the sleepover used cardiac arrest,” Langdon says. Esra’s friends thought she was having a panic attack.
When Andrea got to Esra’s side, paramedics were trying to bring her back to life. They told Andrea’s mom that her daughter had been chroming, which Andrea had never heard of before.
Esra was taken to the hospital, where the parents hoped their baby girl would get better. She had a strong heart and lungs, so she might make it.
After Esra had been on life support for eight days, Paul and Andrea were told that her brain was “beyond repair,” and they had to make the choice to turn off the machine.
Her parents talked about how painful it would be to end their daughter’s life, but they had trouble speaking and kept remembering their worst day.
The chroming death of a Victorian teen
The devastated siblings of a Year 8 student who died from chroming say their new goal is to keep other kids from dying the same way they did.Esra Haynes, a teenager from Don Valley, had a heart attack after breathing in deodorant.
When asked to take Esra’s family and friends to the hospital to say their last goodbyes, her dad said, “It was a very, very hard thing to do to such a young soul.” We could lie down with her because she was put on a bed. We held her close until the end.”
Because she was so moved by the parent’s pain and because she has two young children, Langdon couldn’t hold back her tears.
As of early April, Esra died. Paul says the family is “broken,” and Esra’s siblings Imogen, Seth, and Charlie are “shattered.”
“Really terrible, terrible for everyone, including all of her friends,” Paul said. “This has been the worst and most difficult time for any parent to go through.” Our sleep, food, and smiles have been missing, and we haven’t been ourselves…But it hasn’t just hurt us; it’s hurt the whole community.
Paul and his wife had never heard of chroming before it killed their daughter. Now they are on a mission to spread the word about this dangerous trend among teens that can be easily done with store-bought items like deodorant, paint, hairspray, or even permanent markers.
Paul told a local news station that he wished he had known about chroming when Esra was still alive so that he could have told her how dangerous it was: “If we knew more about it and the word got out, we would have had the conversation at our kitchen table for sure.”
“We need to pick it up a notch and let these kids get the news directly from sources other than friends and social media. That way, they’ll get the right advice right away.”
In order to give parents the chance to educate their children and, hopefully, save their lives, Paul plans to teach parents. their kids.
Parents should have a conversation with their kids and start the conversation off on a good note. We had no idea what was going on.
Over the past few years, the scary trend of chroming has killed several children in Australia and around the world.
Young people like chroming because it gives them a quick high that lasts for a short time. However, it can cause seizures, heart attacks, suffocation, sudden sniffing death, comas, and organ failure.
“We’ll never forget the pictures in our minds of what we saw,” Paul told Langdon. “They tore out our guts.”
We have no idea how hard it must be for a family to decide to turn off life support for a young child. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Haynes family and everyone Esra left behind.
Please tell everyone you know about this story. You can help parents save their children’s lives by teaching them about how dangerous this trend is.
