A ‘petrified’ mum says she’s had to take her two children to A&E and the walk-in centre multiple times and she believes it's down to the shocking condition of her house.
12.06.2023 - 11:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A new mum who noticed her baby couldn't sit up properly has been left devastated after he received a potentially fatal diagnosis.
Victoria Wall welcomed little Seb two years ago, however complications following his birth led to him being placed on a ventilator straight away. He underwent an ultrasound scan at five days old which showed he had a cyst on his brain, but Victoria was reassured by doctors that the growth was nothing to worry about.
However, over the next few months, the 32-year-old grew concerned after Seb started having issues with his development. At six months old, the youngster was unable to sit up without falling over and couldn't eat solid foods. At nine-months-old, he suddenly became extremely distressed and would not stop crying, Manchester Evening News reports.
Victoria "knew something was wrong" and took Seb to see a paediatrician along with her husband, Alex. They were told that the tot had an infection and they were given antibiotics which initially seemed to help, but stopped working just two days later.
With the youngster still in distress, his worried parents drove him to an urgent care centre - where doctors said Seb was perfectly healthy. At a GP appointment shortly after, she was once again told that there was nothing wrong with the tot.
Determined to help her son, Victoria refused to take no for an answer and took him back to urgent care, where medics finally agreed to admit Seb to hospital more than two weeks after his symptoms began.
“They then did blood tests and couldn’t see anything wrong,” she added. “I told them I wasn’t going home until they had done a scan on his head because I knew he had this cyst.
“They were trying to tell me it was a prolonged reaction to a viral infection but
A ‘petrified’ mum says she’s had to take her two children to A&E and the walk-in centre multiple times and she believes it's down to the shocking condition of her house.
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