Posted on 04/27/2024 6:11:46 AM PDT by RummyChick
A Maryland mother who lost her son to sepsis is now fighting for increased protocols in hospitals, as the cruel disease continues to kill one American every 90 seconds.
Lochlin DeSantis was just five years old in January 2020 when he came down with the flu. But what is usually a relatively harmless illness turned into a far more sinister disease.
Within two days of the onset of his sore throat and fever, he became unable to walk - moving his legs were oddly agonizingly painful.
Just a day later, Lochlin started losing consciousness - resulting in a frantic rush to the local hospital.
Devastatingly, Lochlin - who his mother describes as an 'old soul' was dead within 12 hours.
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Having lost a relative to sepsis after being told he had the flu I hope this law does make a difference
“Within two days of the onset of his sore throat and fever, he became unable to walk - moving his legs were oddly agonizingly painful.”
“Just a day later, Lochlin started losing consciousness - resulting in a frantic rush to the local hospital.”
Kinda silly for the parents to wait until the NEXT DAY to carry the kid to the hospital after he was unable to walk the previous day.
Maybe mom should concentrate on getting protocols established requiring parents to take their child to the hospital the SAME DAY their child is paralyzed.
Yes. That would have been wise.
It also makes me wonder if what he had was really the flu.
Was he vaxed?
Within two days of the onset of his sore throat and fever, he became unable to walk - moving his legs were oddly agonizingly painful.
Just a day later, Lochlin started losing consciousness -“
They seem a bit slow on the uptake here.
1. Hospital was secondary to the mother problem.
2. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3831003/posts
Meningitis?
It sounds more like it.
But this is a great way to fear monger about the flu.
IV vitamin C is part of it. They have taken huge strides for this in England. It takes years for better and new ways are adopted by our creaky and inbred Medical businesses.
I don’t know what drugs they used on my family member but it was far too late. initial doctor visit said flu..2 days later emergency room says flu and releases...one day later emergency admits..a few hours later medavacs to another hospital goes into a coma during transport..less than 12 hours from transport ..dead.
I think death certificate said pneumonia and sepsis or maybe septic shock.
By the way, this is one of those cases where patient should have died earlier but waited until everyone traveled to the hospital which was a few hours away. Died about 20 minutes after I got there. I saw an article from a hospice nurse that she said she saw that quite often
My son was diagnosed with meningitis when he was 5. He started out with a headache and stiff neck and we had him in the emergency ward that day. Fortunately, it was viral rather than bacterial and after a few uncomfortable days he was fine. He’s now 48.
We might have given a pass on the headache but the stiff neck was the warning sign for me.
My wife was being treated with chemo, after cancer surgery. She developed sepsis on the day after her 5th of 6 treatments. At the hospital, they began telling me the long wind up to “she is going to die”, and I interrupted. I told them she had grandchildren she wanted to see, she had a long life to live. Her mom was still alive at 96 and walking/talking. I said use surgery, cut it out NOW. They hemmed and hawed, and decided on a surgery after their last of the day that was scheduled. She went in about the time visiting hours were announced. They would only answer to me, that she survived surgery, no visitation to the Hospital. When I got there in the AM, she was up and joking with nurses in ICU. It was sepsis in the bowels, they took out the rotting part, and shortened hers giving her an stoma.
The doctors were amazing, but I prayed the entire time she was in the Emergency room. From 6 am to 7pm, I was with her praying, while she ranted and raved in delirium. God brought her back to me. Septic shock is survivable, but you MUST be assertive in promoting life.
One thing she had in her favor was our consuming vitamins and minerals from the Covid protocol. Including 1 gram of Vitamin C per day ongoing since 2020.
I mourn for your loss of a child, that is for all parents and relatives. Vitamin C should be given to all people as a supplement. It harms nobody at low levels, and helps millions.
My first thought: I’ll bet a doctor told them not to take their little boy to the hospital.
Sure enough, the article goes on to say that a doctor assured them those “symptoms were normal for the flu.” They trusted the doctor and took their little boy home, as he advised.
Some pediatricians seem to assume that most parents are overreacting.
Once, I called 911 for one of my children. When paramedics arrived, I said I’m sorry I panicked. My child is okay. Just a strange cough. They told me to call the pediatrician right there and then. The pediatrician told me that I overreacted and my little one didn’t need to go to a hospital. When I hung up and told the paramedics what he said, their eyes widened. They said, in my shoes, they’d take their child to the ER right now. So, I did what they said.
Oddly enough I have a story like that. 1982, Girlfriend has persistent pain in her right side abdomen. She goes to doctor, he says, basically, it’s nothing. Don’t recall what he may have prescribed. I didn’t know any of this. She called me the next morning still in pain, told me the story . I couldn’t believe my ears. I hung up and headed into Brooklyn. Picked her up and took her to Miamonidies hospital. The looked her over and told me they wanted to transfer her to Coney Island…but she was too far gone!
It’s hard to believe that some of these doctors don’t have a dead list a mile long.
I left out that it was her appendix.
my parents would have taken me to the hospital right away, i would have taken either one of my kids to the hospital right away no waiting..
some people should not be parents period.
Kudos to you for taking your girlfriend to the hospital. When you wrote she was “too far gone,” I hope that meant only too far gone to transfer to another hospital. That is, I hope the first hospital was able to save her.
These stories are so common. In fact, I was misdiagnosed myself two years ago with a non-life-threatening condition. Then, a few months ago, I went to a different doctor, who was shocked by the first doctor’s diagnosis and immediately diagnosed me correctly. It turns out, it was life-threatening. In fact, I just finished treatments.
OTOH, I knew a woman who was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. She underwent treatments that caused serious side effects. Later, the doctors told her they made a mistake - she never had that condition.
Yes I meant that she was too far along to try to transport. They operated on her immediately. She came out ok.
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