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This page is set up to document and follow positive actions to provide a long-lasting and tangible legacy for Victoria.

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas to my little girl.
I hope you like your tree.
Missing you so very much tonight, love you sweetheart xx

04/02/2025

My little girl has been gone from us for seven whole years today.
It really doesn't seem possible that that much time has passed. I know I say it every year but it's true. And it still doesn't seem real, even after all this time.
One of her friends posted a couple of weeks ago that grief doesn't go away, you just get stronger to carry it, and it really struck me. The grief doesn't get less, your life grows around it and you just get used to it being there.
I graduated with my Masters on 23rd January. I wasn't going to attend the ceremony but got talked into it, and am so glad that I did.
I took a lock of Victoria's hair with me, next to my heart, and had a photo of her next to my cake. I believe she and my friends gave me the strength to not only do it, but to enjoy it too.
I still cannot fathom that she isn't here with me and I'd give anything to have her back.
I love you and miss you so much sweetheart ###

04/02/2024

My special girl, gone 6 years today.
It doesn't seem possible
💔

02/10/2023

Another 9.41am on 2nd October.
My 6th without you Victoria.
You would have been 26 today, 26 I can't believe it...
I miss you as much as ever, sometimes even more.
I know you thought it was hilarious that there was no point looking for birthday messages on facebook from me until 9.41am because I wouldn't post until that time because that's officially when you were born. I'm glad I did that and that became our personal joke.
And for the rest of my life I will think of you at 9.41am on 2nd October.
I love you always and forever my sweetheart, my little girl.

29/09/2023

Don't forget - this Sunday at noon, I will be abseiling from The Spinnaker Tower - Spinnaker Tower Abseil for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation - in memory of Victoria and to raise money for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation.
Please help in any way you can.
Boxer and lower leg amputee Matt Edwards will be joining me in this challenge. He's better known for walking up Snowdon on crutches!

I'm raising money in aid of Thin Blue Paw Foundation in memory of my mu… Tracey Hills needs your support for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation with Victoria Hills

25/09/2023

Please remember that my abseil from The Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth is at 12 noon this coming Sunday, 1st October.
I would love to see anyone who wants to come along for a cup of tea or lunch afterwards.
I'm going to be terrified so if you want to see that, please come and enjoy it!

I'm raising money in aid of Thin Blue Paw Foundation in memory of my mu… Tracey Hills needs your support for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation with Victoria Hills

18/03/2023

I have just received Victoria's photos from Venture Studios.
These were taken August 2012.
They not only sent the pics, but made a little slideshow too.
So I've had a smile and I've had a cry.
I miss my little girl so much

12/03/2023

Victoria's friend Gee, and I, will be abseiling from the Spinnaker Tower on Sunday 1st October at noon to raise money for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation.
It's the closest I could get to Victoria's birthday (2nd) and I'll be carrying her picture with me.
Please come along and support us.
Video of what it looks like in the comments.
Please, please, share the fundraiser as it's stalled since I couldn't log in and update it, and I really want to get some momentum going again.

I'm raising money in aid of Thin Blue Paw Foundation in memory of my mu… Tracey Hills needs your support for The Thin Blue Paw Foundation with Victoria Hills

24/02/2023

This is what Sassy, Mabel and I are walking for this year, to help these dogs. I've done about 85 miles so far.
Please share the GoFundMe page with your friends, all the shares help to spread the word.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-thin-blue-paw-foundation-with-victoria-hills

We're thrilled to announce that we have hit a huge milestone as a foundation. Since our launch in 2020, we have covered £125,000 worth of veterinary and rehabilitation treatment for the heroic retired police dogs that we support across the United Kingdom. We couldn't have done it without your support, THANK YOU!!! 🎉👏💙🇬🇧🐶

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Victoria’s Story

Victoria was in her first year at Bournemouth University, studying Music and Sound Production Technology when she fell ill. She thought she had flu, and possibly an ear infection because she was dizzy.

In reality, she was critically ill.

She asked a flatmate for some painkillers, but no-one had any, so she decided to just stay in bed and sleep it off.

She never woke up.

She had a rare bacterial infection called Lemierre’s Syndrome. It has some other descriptions too, Invasive Fusobacterium Necrophorum Disease (IFND), post-anginal sepsis, infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein, or just known by the name of the bacteria. She had glandular fever which weakened her immune system and allowed the infection to take hold.

https://www.diseasemaps.org/lemierres-syndrome/

That was Saturday morning. It wasn’t until her close friends returned from their weekend away with their families, that they realised that none of them had heard from her. They went to check immediately they realised. They couldn’t get any reply, so they got security to come and open the room.

She was dead in her comfy bed, in the little room she loved with her fairy lights.

She was just 20 years old.

It was a further 9 weeks before the exact cause could be pinpointed. It was confirmed by specialist gene analysis at Sussex University, from tissue samples, which have been retained for research purposes to potentially help others, as she would have wanted. It was recorded on the certificate as just the bacterial name as a complication of Epstein-Barr Virus.

I have set this page up not only in her memory, but to try and give her a positive and lasting legacy. She was such a special and kind girl, and was so helpful and generous. She was a gifted singer and an incredibly talented saxophonist. She loved our dogs more than anything.

She was beautiful, funny and caring, and I am so privileged to be her mum. I just wish we had had more time together, and I miss her dearly.

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