A DEVASTATED teenager has spoken his mum’s heart-wrenching final message - “I love you with all my heart” - before she was put into a coma and later died from Covid.
Ethan Hussey, 18, from Rayleigh, has paid tribute to his “amazing” mum Nicola “Nicki” Hussey after she passed away at Southend Hospital on January 13.
Nicki, 47, who was taken to hospital on December 22, leaves behind her husband Dave and three children, Ethan, Ryan and Kian.
He has shared the heartbreaking final moments, after she sent her loved ones a text message starting with the words “I love you with all my heart” before she was taken to intensive care.
Ethan said: “On December 31, she Facetimed my dad and I went and spoke to her and said Happy New Year, I love you, I hope you’re coming home soon.
“On January 1 me, my brothers and my dad all got the same text message from my mum. It said ‘I love you with all my heart’ and was then directed to each of us.
“We thought it didn’t sound too good. My dad knew someone working on the ward that she was on so he called her and they said she had been rushed down to intensive care because she wasn’t coping.
“She got put into a coma. It was the worst 13 days of my whole family’s life.”
Ethan is now raising money for Southend Hospital’s ICU to say thank you to staff for looking after his mum and for calling the family so they could speak to Nicki while she was in a coma.
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Ethan, alongside his girlfriend Liberty, has raised more than £15,000 in the first three days of setting up the fundraiser.
He said: “They were absolutely incredible calling us every day and making sure we were OK which they didn’t need to do. That’s why we wanted to donate the money to just the ICU unit in Southend.
“I’m doing everything I’m doing now for my mum and I’m hopefully making her proud.”
Ethan spoke of his love for his mum, who was a “family person”.
He added: “She was just absolutely incredible, an incredible woman.
“She was just a family person and she did everything for everyone that she could.
"I looked up to her in every way. I got up in the morning because of, I went to work because of my mum.
"She wanted me to achieve and she wanted us to be proud. She was loved by many people.”
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