The Fox Family

Monday, August 08, 2005

Meningococcal : I never thought it would happen to my daughter

Well,

I've been to hell and back over the past week and half. My daughter (Clare) contracted the Meningococcal disease on the 31st July 2005.


It all happened so fast. I was looking after her during the day, she was fine. We played etc... At 4pm we picked up Ruth from the train station. Ruth jumped in the car and Clare asked for her mum to sit beside her in the back seat. Sure Ruth said.

We went off to pick up some groceries from the supermarket. I was reversing the car when Clare began to vomit in the back of the car.

We skipped the shopping the headed back to home. Clare went to sleep for about an hour, she said she felt tired and a little sick.

She woke up and she basically just looked flat..... Slightly listless. We took her temp. and it was 39.5c ... A tad hot!

Over the next four hours Clare got progressively worse.... At 10:30pm at night Ruth and I decided to take Clare to the Royal Children's Hospital.

The triage nurse when presented with Clare said ... "Is she normally this pale? , She does look sick, doesn't she?". Yes we replied. She then said, "My problem is, that I want to put her through but I've had some people waiting for more than 2 hours". Clare the blessed little thing decided at that point to throw up in front of the triage nurse.

The nurse smiled and said "... That's a good reason for her to go straight through, right now!"

more tomorrow.....

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