'You're in a blur, you don't know day from night.' The reality of having a child in hospital

Fearne is nine, and her epilepsy has meant multiple stays in hospital, where her mum Sinéad was forced to sleep on a chair for weeks on end

Fearne and Sinead Tivy.

Fearne is nine and her epilepsy has meant multiple stays in hospital, where her mum Sinéad slept on a chair for weeks on end. They talk to Donal O’Keeffe about why hospitals need to do more to look after the parents of sick children

“IT all started the day Fearne’s pony, Bling, died,” says Sinéad Tivy, remembering the first time her daughter, who was then six-and-a-half, suffered an epileptic seizure.