Jess Wright says parents should always trust their gut
Jess Wright has shared an update after her little boy Presley was rushed to hospital.
The mum’s two-year-old son became “limp and lifeless” after suddenly falling ill last Tuesday.
Jess said her son was refusing food and then started to throw up during the night.
“This sickness turned into a horrific cough, with a temperature. Finally, on Friday, my mother’s instinct kicked in & I took him to A&E.”
Jess said her son was sent home from the hospital because his observations were okay after a dose of Nurofen.
The doctors couldn’t hear anything suspicious in his lungs, but he’d had a temperature and rapid breathing.
The mum said seeing her son like this “frightened me beyond belief.”
“Saturday came and he was more lifeless than ever, with no colour in his face still, and hadn’t eaten in about 48 hours.
“I was on my own with him around lunchtime and I noticed his cough wasn’t letting up.”
Jess knew something wasn’t right so she decided to phone an ambulance when her son couldn’t stop coughing.
“I called 999 & within 8 minutes (thank god) there was an ambulance at our door. All I could do was cling to him hoping he was going to be ok.”
“The lady on the call also told me to go and find a defibrillator, and it was at that point I honestly wanted to just collapse,” Jess admitted.
Her son was then given a throat steroid in the ambulance to help calm down the coughing. However, the mum said his oxygen dropped.
“I was terrified in that ambulance, something I never want to happen again. At the hospital, he had a top-up of the throat steroid and within a couple of hours, his coughing calmed right down.
Her son’s doctor confirmed he had a chest/lung infection and put her toddler on antibiotics.
The mum said he has improved drastically but stressed that parents should always trust their gut when it comes to their children’s health.
“48 hours later & he’s up playing with his horses & animals again, has eaten little & often & has his cheeky laugh back.
“To say I’m relieved is an understatement. I’m just trying to say, don’t wait, go to the hospital & get them checked because you never know how these things can escalate.
“Thank god for the doctors and nurses that helped us. Now time to watch my baby be the funny little boy he always is and let him go back to his favourite place, the farm.”
