Following a terrifying sleepover, distraught parents were forced to give up on their 13-year-old daughter.
When Australian Anyy Langdon spoke with a mother and father who had to make the difficult decision to end the life of their daughter, whom they had given birth to thirteen years earlier, she was unable to conceal how depressed she felt.
The girl succumbed to a popular fad known as “chroming,” and Langdon—a mother herself—could barely contain her grief.
The hosts of A Current Affair were informed by Andrea and Paul Haynes about the death of their 13-year-old daughter Esra Haynes as a result of adhering to the social media craze known as “chroming,” which involves inhaling toxic fumes via the nose or mouth in order to become high.
As co-captain of the Montrose Football Netball Club, Esra was described as “determined, fun, cheeky, and talented.” As a young athlete, she competed in BMX bike races alongside her brothers and guided her team to a Queensland national aerobics championship.
Esra spent the night at a friend’s house on March 31. She inhaled an aerosol deodorant container to acquire a lethal high. After that, she suffered irreversible brain damage and a heart attack.
Her mother Andrea told Langdon, “It was just her normal thing to do, which was to hang out with her friends.” “We always knew where she was and who she was with,” her father Paul stated. Nothing unusual about it existed.”We received the call at that hour of the night, which no parent ever wants to receive: “Come collect your daughter.””
Langdon states, “But she was in cardiac arrest; no one at the sleepover used cardiac arrest, and after inhaling deodorant, her body was actually starting to shut down.” Esra’s pals believed she was experiencing a panic attack.
Esra was being revived by paramedics when Andrea arrived at her side. Andrea had never heard of chroming until they informed her mother that her daughter had been experiencing it.
After Esra was brought to the hospital, her parents prayed for their little girl’s recovery. She might survive since her heart and lungs were healthy.
Paul and Andrea were informed that Esra’s brain was “beyond repair” after she had been on life support for eight days, and they were left with the decision to switch off the machine.
Her parents discussed the agony of taking their daughter’s life, but they were unable to converse and kept thinking back to their darkest day.
The Victorian teen’s chroming death
Relieved, the siblings of a Year 8 student who died from chroming believe that preventing other children from dying as theirs did is their new mission.Don Valley adolescent Esra Haynes suffered a heart attack after inhaling in deodorant.
“It was a very, very hard thing to do to such a young soul,” Esra’s father remarked when asked to transport her relatives and friends to the hospital to say their final farewell. She was placed on a bed so that we could lie down with her. To the very end, we kept her near to us.
With two little children of her own, Langdon was deeply touched by the parent’s suffering and was unable to control her tears.
Esra passed away in early April. Paul describes the siblings of Esra—Imogen, Seth, and Charlie—as “shattered,” and the family as “broken.”
Paul described it as “really terrible, terrible for everyone, including all of her friends.” “For any parent, this has been the worst and most challenging time to go through.” We haven’t been ourselves, and we’ve missed out on food, sleep, and smiles.But it has harmed not only us but also the entire neighborhood.
Before their daughter was killed by chroming, Paul and his wife were unaware of its existence. They are now on a mission to raise awareness about this risky teen habit, which can be readily carried out using readily available store-bought supplies including permanent markers, paint, hairspray, and deodorant.
“If we knew more about it and the word got out, we would have had the conversation at our kitchen table for sure,” Paul said to a local television station, regretting not having learned about chroming when Esra was still alive.
“We should step it up a notch and allow these youngsters to obtain their news directly from sources outside social media and friends. They will thus receive the appropriate counsel straight immediately.
Paul intends to train parents in order to offer them the opportunity to educate their kids and, ideally, save their lives. their children.
It is important for parents to have positive conversations with their children. We were clueless about the situation.
The terrifying chroming fad has killed many youngsters in Australia and other countries in the last few years.
Young individuals enjoy chroming because it provides them with a brief, fleeting high. On the other hand, it can result in comas, organ failure, asphyxia, convulsions, heart attacks, and abrupt smelling death.
Paul said to Langdon, “We’ll never forget the pictures in our minds of what we saw.” “They ripped out our insides.”
We can’t begin to imagine how difficult it must be for a family to determine whether to remove a small kid from life support. We are praying for the Haynes family and all others that Esra leaves behind.
Please share this story with everyone you know. By making parents aware of how hazardous this trend is, you may help them save the lives of their children.