A TEENAGER who has battled serious illness all her life was found collapsed in her bedroom, an inquest heard.
Fifteen-year-old Leeanne Ryan, of Allerton Drive, Burnley, suffered from Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a growth hormone deficiency, which causes diabetes and severe epileptic seizures.
Burnley Coroner’s Court was told that after one such seizure, Leanne was found collapsed on her bedroom floor.
She was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital by amb-ulance, where she was pronounced dead, on July 8.
East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor said, Leeanne’s collapse was due to epilepsy, his verdict would be death by natural causes.
The Shuttleworth College student was mourned by her mother Andrea and brothers Robert, Jamie, Sam and Jack, and a host of family and friends.
Tragically Andrea had lost her husband Roger to a brain haemorrhage in 2002 and her 17-month-old son Liam to meningitis in 1991.
The family pledged to raise money and awareness of epilepsy as a lasting tribute to the life of Leeanne, who had wanted to train as a nurse.
Her mother described Leeanne as a “bubbly, lively girl”, despite frequent hospital stays.
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