Boy dies in parents arms days after choking on a notice board pin

‘We’re broken beyond words’: Parents tell of their devastation after son, five, dies in their arms days after choking on a notice board pin

• Kyle Lewis, 5, lost his life after swallowing a notice board pin in South Yorkshire
• The family paid tribute to their boy and said they are ‘broken beyond words’
• ‘He took his last heartbeat while we were cuddling him,’ said Kyle’s mother

The family of a five-year-old who choked to death after swallowing a notice board pin paid tribute to the boy from South Yorkshire on Saturday.

Kyle Lewis lost his life after three days of fighting, with his parents saying goodbye to him in Rotherham General, only six days after his fifth birthday.

‘He took his last heartbeat while we were cuddling him,’ said the family in a personal message, adding that they are ‘broken beyond words’.

After multiple seizures and a rise in temperature, a scan showed that between 90-95% of Kyle’s brain had been damaged after he swallowed the pin.

Emma Lewis, Kyle’s mother, said: ‘I can’t even explain how I feel. I’m broken beyond words. It doesn’t feel real. I don’t want it to feel real. They kept him on life support until we were ready to say goodbye.

‘But you’re never ready are you?’ 

Kyle Lewis, 5, lost his life following a three-day fight in hospital after swallowing a notice board pin in South Yorkshire

Kyle’s mother, pictured with him, said: ‘He took his last heartbeat while we were cuddling him,’ in a personal message on Saturday

Kyle’s father waited with him during his final breaths in hospital. The two are pictured together in happier times

Kyle’s mother praised the hospital staff for making room for her and Kyle’s father, who waited with him during his final breaths. 

Mrs Lewis, speaking to The Star, said: ‘After that funeral, I can’t go cuddle him anymore. When he was in the chapel I would go two or three times a week.

‘I would move him up on the bed and I was laying with him, talking to him. It’s destroyed me. People tell me to be strong, it’s not as easy as that. I’ve lost my boy and I can’t think of anything apart from him at the minute.

‘It’s like I don’t know how to grieve. I don’t know how to feel, I don’t know what to think, I don’t know how to act. I feel like a robot. It broke my heart, but he’s still my boy.’

A fundraiser has been set up to help a devastated South Yorkshire family pay tribute to their son, after he passed away last month at just five years old. 

A GoFundMe, which has already raised £1,155 out of a goal of £4,000, read: ‘To make things a little easier a few of us wanted to set up this to help give him the best send off possible no parent should have to bury [their] child and have to struggle to find the money to do so.’

Kyle is described as ‘cheeky’ and loved dinosaurs. His mother said: ‘He was the double of his father. Very sneaky, but cheeky at the same time. His favourite saying was ‘it wasn’t me’

The family has set up a GoFundMe, which has already raised £1,155 out of a goal of £4,000, Kyle’s mother said: ‘He was the double of his father. Very sneaky, but cheeky at the same time. His favourite saying was ‘it wasn’t me’. He loved dinosaurs. We’ve said instead of him growing his angel wings, he’s grown his dinosaur wings’

Mrs Lewis from Swallownest, speaking to The Star, said: ‘He was the double of his father. Very sneaky, but cheeky at the same time. His favourite saying was ‘it wasn’t me’. He loved dinosaurs. We’ve said instead of him growing his angel wings, he’s grown his dinosaur wings.

‘(For the funeral), we’ve all got personalised T-shirts with a photo of him and a blue love heart on the front. On the back it has a picture of a t rex and ‘Kyle-saurus’ written on it.’

Every T-shirt at the funeral also had a phrase that Kyle would say written on it.

The family have created a memorial including a banner that the hospital in Leeds gave them, placed on their bannister at home.

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