A heartbroken mom has recalled the second she discovered her daughter had gone into cardiac arrest after overdosing at a competition.
Alex Ross-King, 19, died after taking three doses of MDMA on the FOMO music competition in Parramatta in January 2019.
{The teenager} took one capsule whereas onboard a celebration bus from her dwelling on NSW’s Central Coast and two drugs once they arrived at about 12:30pm.
Alice advised buddies she had taken the drugs earlier than the competition as an alternative of inside as a result of she was afraid of being caught by police.
Roughly 9 hours later, {the teenager} can be declared useless.
Alex Ross-King, 19, died after taking three doses of MDMA on the FOMO music competition in Parramatta in January 2019
Alice’s mom Jennie reminded her daughter to drink a number of water on the competition throughout their final dialog. She stated Alice had been an excellent, good and really inquisitive teenager
Her mom Jennie recalled the final dialog she ever had along with her daughter throughout an emotional interview with YouTuber Jamie Zhu.
‘I simply stated to her “honey, it is actually sizzling, please ensure you drink loads of water and keep cool” and he or she stated, “yeah mum, no worries, I really like you, bye”,’ she stated.
‘And that was the final time I spoke to her.’
Alice’s buddies, Mackenzie and Petra, additionally attended the competition.
‘She took one on the bus, as did I,’ Mackenzie stated.
‘After we bought there, she had one other two. As a substitute of taking it in, she determined to take each on the similar time.’
A number of hours later, Petra knew one thing was flawed when Alice struggled to take care of eye contact along with her and started tripping over individuals.
The group had been noticed by a roaming medical officer who successfully dragged Alice with the assistance of her buddies to the medical tent.
A paramedic assessed Alice and famous she had ‘spontaneous and uncontrollable giant muscle actions, indicators per serotonin toxicity’.
She had a temperature of 41C, so paramedics utilized icepacks. Alice’s jaw was spasming, her pulse was racing, and her respiratory was quick and irregular.
Alice was behaving erratically and borderline abusive – which her buddies stated was very out of character.
‘They had been clearly asking me questions on what she had taken, and that is after I began telling them the whole lot,’ Petra recalled.
Alice was rushed to Westmead Hospital, dropping consciousness on the best way. Docs intubated her and he or she was placed on a ventilator.
Ten minutes after arriving on the hospital, she went into cardiac arrest with an ‘agitated’ Mackenzie calling Jennie to let her know.
Alice (pictured along with her mom Jennie) went into cardiac arrest simply 10 minutes after she arrived at Westmead Hospital after taking three doses of MDMA at a music competition
Petra (proper) and Mackenzie (left) each attended the FOMO competition with Alice
‘I might inform there was one thing not proper and I stated “mate what’s flawed? What is going on on?” and he did not know what to say or the best way to say it,’ Jennie recalled.
An emergency physician bought on the cellphone and requested if she was driving. He requested her to tug over and advised her Alice had gone into cardiac arrest.
Docs administered giant doses of adrenaline over 4 hours of tried resuscitation. Ultimately, the choice was made to cease mechanical CPR.
A toxicology report discovered an MDMA focus nicely into the deadly vary.
Petra had been standing exterior the hospital when the doorways opened and he or she noticed her buddies inside, watching her and shaking their heads.
‘That is after I knew, I simply dropped to the ground,’ she stated by tears.
Jennie stated Alice had been her ‘solely child’.
‘What’s my goal now in life? What do I do?’ she remembered pondering.
A toxicology report discovered Alice had a MDMA focus nicely into the deadly vary
Jennie has since been vocal about altering the regulation and educating younger individuals.
She now goals to launch a podcast to coach younger individuals concerning the dangers of substance use at festivals and supply mother and father with the information they should preserve their kids secure.
‘I simply need younger individuals to be armed with the data, not for folks to go “nicely my youngsters do not take medication”. Okay, that is nice, however are you going to wager their life on it? As a result of that is what your doing,’ Jennie stated.
‘Alex did not take medication, to me she did not take medication. However she did.’
