Eight times Emma Osborne, a mother from Beechdale, Great Britain, took her little Elisabeth to the hospital and was sent home eight times with the same diagnosis. For the doctors, the six-year-old girl had nothing, even going so far as to imagine that she was pretending to be unwell to be taken to the hospital and then be “rewarded” with a gift after the visit. But Emma knew that something was wrong. He could hear his daughter screaming and knew she wasn’t pretending. A maternal instinct that led her to insist until a doctor discovered the truth: Elisabeth has a rare cancer of the lymphatic system, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, for which she began chemotherapy in October after the illness for seven months. it had never been diagnosed.
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In March, Emma took Elisabeth to Queen’s Medical Center A&E in Nottingham for excruciating pain in her hip: after blood tests and an X-ray, her mother and daughter were sent home. “About six weeks later she woke up screaming again, but this time with a pain in her left leg, and we had to take her back to the ER. They visited it and sent us home. This went on for weeks, until a doctor told us that the little girl was pretending because she was expecting a reward after her visit to the hospital. I felt really frustrated because deep down I knew something was wrong. “
The parents continued to go to the hospital until Emma noticed a lump on her daughter’s body in June. Taken to the hospital, the little girl was subjected to more in-depth examinations, including an MRI that revealed an anomaly, bringing the tragic truth to the surface. Last 6 October, the child was diagnosed with cancer and now an ordeal has begun for the family that will last two and a half years for chemotherapy.
“It was terrible and I hope that no other parent has to experience what happened to us – continued Emma – Thinking that your daughter has had cancer for seven months and that she has not undergone any treatment is horrible. Trust your instincts as a parent because you are the ones who know your children best. I am so angry that I fought for seven months without anyone taking me seriously. But we must always keep fighting. I am grateful to the doctors who noticed that something was wrong. Now we can act to make her feel better ».
Last update: Saturday 24 October 2020, 16:29
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