Almost two months on from her daughter’s death, former Olympian Lisa Curry has posted another heartbreaking tribute to her eldest child.
Jaimi Kenny, the oldest daughter of Ms Curry and fellow Olympian Grant Kenny, died on September 14 after a battle with a long-term illness.
The 33-year-old “passed away peacefully” surrounded by her friends and family at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
Taking to Instagram this morning, Ms Curry penned the brief but personal post, alongside a new picture of her smiling daughter.
“I miss my baby girl … it’s so quiet without her,” Ms Curry wrote, adding emojis of a sad face, broken heart and angel to the post.
“It’s so quiet without her. Each day seems a bit of a blur but I get through it … feeling empty … it’s hard to even think … my mind consumed as to what else I could have done to help … My beautiful Jaimi.”
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In early October, Ms Curry opened up about the “red flags” she saw in her late daughter in the years before her tragic death.
Ms Curry said Jaimi had been diagnosed with a “chemical imbalance” as a teenager and died after “many years of ups and downs” with her health.
“I know people want to know why and how, but it’s not important at this time, or maybe ever, I don’t know,” she wrote.
“What I will say though is that Jeff (Butterworth) diagnosed her with a chemical imbalance 18 years ago when we started to see some tiny red flags.
“Sometimes, an individual, even adults like us, can disregard little red flags, thinking it doesn’t matter or won’t matter.”
In the post published in the Happy Hormones Facebook group, Ms Curry said she was still grappling with her eldest child’s death.
“We held Jaimi when she took her first breath and we held her as she took her last. I still can’t believe it, it doesn’t seem real,” she said.
“It’s given me the heaviest heart. Some days I can’t even get out of bed or function.”
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She urged those in the group not to ignore their own “red flags” that she said could “add up to slowly erode your whole being … to the point where you may only be existing and not really living”.
Those warning signs included “life’s small neglects” such as poor food choices, a lack of attention to stressful situations, being inactive, living with or around toxic people, and how you interact with others.
It has been widely reported Ms Kenny had struggled with depression and alcohol abuse in recent years following the death of her partner Lachy Crossley in 2017.
Ms Curry would later tell The Saturday Telegraph her daughter died after a “lengthy and complex alcohol-related health battle”.
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