Isabella Thomson, known on social media as Bella Brave, has died at just 10 years old. The young woman, who had more than seven million followers on her Tik Tok profile, passed away on July 15 as a result of several rare diseases she suffered from.
Bella Brave began to become known on social media for showing, despite her young age, what her daily life was like in the fight once morest dwarfism and Hirschsprung’s disease and severe Combined Immunodeficiency.
It was her mother Kyle, who is in charge of managing her social media accounts, who confirmed the death of the little girl in statements to the British newspaper Independent.
As reported by Canadian broadcaster CFME, Bella was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on July 9 due to a serious lung infection and had to be intubated shortly following. A week later, the little girl died.
“Our brave little girl left her legacy here on earth to dance on the streets of gold July 14, 2024 at 4:19pm ET. Bella passed away peacefully in our arms. Please keep her name on your lips, her memories alive, and her bravery in your hearts. Please share with us every detail of how she touched your life or kept you brave. Bella would like you to remember; God is love, be brave, and you are never too old to bring a stiff,” her mother wrote.
As she herself has been recounting these past few days, both Kyla and the girl’s father always tried to keep hope alive and entertained her with music and letters from her fans during her recent hospitalization.
“The best doctors told us things were very bad, but I watched her closely and listened intently until I heard what hope there was that we might hold on to,” her mother wrote, adding that experts had detected a “rapid deterioration in Bella’s lungs.”
What illnesses did little Bella Brave suffer from?
Hirschsprung’s disease is a disorder that affects the large intestine and causes bowel movement problems. It is a congenital disease that appears as a result of a lack of nerve cells in the muscles of the baby’s colon. “Without these nerve cells stimulating the intestinal muscles to help move the contents through the colon, the contents can build up and cause an obstruction in the intestine,” they explain from Mayo Clinic.
While Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a primary immunodeficiency disorder involving combined humoral and cellular immunodeficiencies. There are several forms of severe combined immunodeficiency that are autosomal recessive; therefore, for an infant to have severe combined immunodeficiency, the same gene must be mutated on both chromosomes.
