A driver saw a man staring with “fear or panic” at the spot where the burned-out car of a woman thought to have been murdered with her son more than 45 years ago was found.
03.09.2022 - 14:29 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An Edinburgh mum has issued a warning after revealing that her young son's sore stomach turned out to be the silent killer Sepsis. Mum-of-two Katy Graham has shared her harrowing story after nearly losing her youngest son Shay to the condition.
Katy and dad Kev initially raised the alarm after their son became limp and his eyes began to roll towards the back of his head. Five-year-old Shay, who was born with cerebral palsy defied the odds as a youngster by learning to walk and talk.
Despite spending a lot of time in hospital wards throughout his life, his recent trip nearly turned into his most deadly. After having a bowel infection the youngster developed sepsis in the space of an afternoon, becoming unresponsive after contracting the life-threatening infection.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live, Katy, 37, said: "Shay my youngest son has cerebral palsy so we have been in and out of the Sick Kids hospital all his life.
"From birth doctors said there will be things he is not able to do such as run, jump and walk but he is a fighter and he has defied them all. Apart from weakness in one arm you can't tell about Shay's condition he walks and runs about and he is almost able bodied.
"It was surreal to be there for something so unrelated to his condition. It came from a bowel infection, that afternoon he had a sore tummy and diarrhoea but by tea time he was lethargic and I thought his eyes were rolling to the back of his head. We decide within ten seconds something wasn’t right and sped to the hospital.
"In the car he was barely conscious and talking and just looked really limp and weak. When we arrived at the Sick Kids he was taken straight out of my arms and onto a bed where they pumped lots of fluids into him."
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A driver saw a man staring with “fear or panic” at the spot where the burned-out car of a woman thought to have been murdered with her son more than 45 years ago was found.
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