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