| Minus all meningitis thoughts. The flu symptons were | | | | hands I assured myself and that being the hands of |
| strong. Headache, burning fever and sore throat. So | | | | god.It seemed like a life time before that curtain |
| what does any natural mother do when their | | | | came swishing back to have the doctor in his white |
| offspring takes ill. They smother him or her with a lot | | | | coat appear before me. |
| of TLC and would walk to the ends of the earth just | | | | I gave him lucozade I wiped his brow. I even put on |
| to take away the pain and suffering.Is a mother's | | | | his favourite videos and smothered him with all the |
| love, medicine?Despite all those motherly rituals | | | | love I could possibly give. Where did I go wrong |
| mentioned above. There was no change in my nine | | | | doctor? You did nothing wrong was his reply.Just to |
| year old son's condition. Meningitis still so distant in my | | | | hear those words that there was no cause for alarm |
| thoughts..The lucozade was poured out in pints to | | | | and that my little boy was going to pull through, gave |
| quench his thirst and a saturated flannel to change | | | | me back all the strength that seemed to have |
| every minute to wipe his brow. I prayed more times | | | | drained from my body while waiting for the outcome |
| to god than that of any pope for my son to pull out | | | | of this nightmare.Meningitis symptons had a strong |
| of this other world he had elapsed into.A mother's | | | | presence the doctor said. It was a virus on the inside |
| love is more of a cure than any cough medicines pills | | | | trying to break out. |
| or tablets, so I thought..Humming one of his favourite | | | | Tears of happiness flowed like that of Niagra falls as |
| tunes as I held him up close in my arms rocking him | | | | I rushed to my little boys side.Holding him tight kissing |
| back and too. | | | | and cuddling him like any natural mother would do.I |
| Not even his favourite videos could pull him out of | | | | had unfinished business to attend to and that was to |
| this alien world that he now belonged toWas a | | | | thank the man himself up above for hearing my cry. |
| mother's love? slowly killing her little boy.Every | | | | Now to arrange a ten year olds birthday party.The |
| mother's worst nightmare was to befall me with the | | | | doctor approached me and asked if he could say |
| inevitable happening. Purple like bruises began to | | | | something before I left.Yes of course doctor? |
| appear on his chest followed by the loss of his voice. | | | | A mother's love is great medicine for comforting her |
| With trembling hands I struggled to dial 999. Please | | | | children |
| god if your up there hear my prayers, let my little | | | | but when it comes to curing them. please call a |
| boy reach 10..When the doctor arrived he said he | | | | doctor. Kacy is my name, and yes I nearly lost my |
| couldnt rule out meningitis. And so my little boy was | | | | little boy, for many others who may not have had |
| rushed off in an ambulance at a speed that would | | | | God hear their prayers. He was listening, only he |
| have given Nigel Mansell a run for his money. | | | | chose to have your little boy or girl at his side in |
| Thank god for flashing blue sirens.In silence I prayed | | | | heaven.We all do what we think is right but is it right? |
| for god to give me back my son.The curtain may | | | | Don't leave it to chance. Consult a doctor and make |
| well have been a brick wall that separated me and | | | | sure that your child gets the right treatment. Thats |
| my little boy in the hospital. But he was in good | | | | what natural mothers do. |