Doctors failed our boy..I want to make sure no other child dies of sepsis

was stiff. Panicked, I opened the curtains and to my horror, it was obvious that he had passed away.

I remember screaming: “He’s not breathing, he’s dead!” Paul ran in, scooped William up and started CPR while I was on the phone to paramedics. The ambulance arrived in under seven minutes but my gorgeous boy was already gone. I couldn’t understand it.

At the hospital, I handed him over to the mortician and then we left without our son. It was the most terrible day of our lives.

The next day – Monday – Paul and I should have got married. Instead, we were mourning the loss of our little boy. We cried and held each other for hours.

A couple of days later, the coroner called and told us that there was going to be an inquest.

Apparently William had had double pneumonia, a collapsed lung, fluid in his left lung and he died of sepsis – blood poisoning. Sepsis is the body’s reaction to severe infection. It shut down William’s organs because a bacterial infection in his chest that developed into pneumonia was never treated. Had he been given antibiotics, he would probably never have developed sepsis.

That first year after he died I fell apart. I had severe anxiety, I couldn’t work, eat or function. I blamed myself – could I have done som Eng and Wil lear of d cau

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