Needing help. We lost our son.
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Hi my name is Khadijah Jennings I’m raising a fun-raiser for My family and I. We just lost a son, he was only 9 months old. We lost him to Medical negligence. He had febrile seizures where he only has them when he has a high fever. He had his first one in Dec 2023. We stay on top of the medicine that was prescribed. They diagnosed him with just a fever and ear infection but never diagnosed the seizure, even tho I told them the symptoms. I was confused on why they did that. So I spoke to his pediatrician and she ask me well was he jerking or was he shaking like he was cold I told her the same thing I told the doctor at the University hospital in Columbia mo that he was jerky really hard and he was so aware that every time he jerked it freaked him out and he cried. So she said it was a simple febrile seizure and also told me that he will never have it again. So I left it alone. The second time was on Feb 9th 2024 and this time his brother came down stairs with him and was telling me that he looking up at the sky and not moving and also not responding at all. I swooped him up and noticed and I called his dad that was sitting outside at the time and we rushed him to the same hospital. This time it took them 20-30 mins just to get him back to a room and he was in dads lap still jerking and still had a really high fever and he was coming down from the seizure. I’m worried dad is worried and very irritated with them. My baby was so hot and exhausted just laying there not really moving. We finally get back to a room 20-30mins later and it’s like they were taking their time to check him for anything they asked me the same question like the first one and I told them he had a seizure but this time he wasn’t responsive and his fever was really high well they hooked him up to the vital machine to make sure he had oxygen that was fine but literally took forever to just give him any type of medicine. So me and my baby are sitting there in that room waiting for the doctors to come back in in the mist my baby is still jerking and just scaring hisself every time. They finally came back in there and checked his ear and noticed that the right ear was really clogged with earwax so the tried to scrape it out that didn’t work so they put liquid ear drops in his ear to soften the earwax to see if they can look in there. Well they finally got to look after doing that. And noticed that he had a severe ear infection and told me that that was the reason for his seizures which I thought was reasonable. But they never looked further on why he kept having them. So I thought it was ok because that’s what the doctor told me. And he was doing fine for the time he was at home he still had a running nose and alil cough but that was about it. But going on the next week Feb 17th during the day he was doing perfectly fine laughing and I have a video of him dancing and everything coming to that night he was with his brothers. Which they are 9 about to be ten this year. Me and my mom went to get dad from where he was at took dad to his car I had uncle sit with my kids til I got back when we got back uncle called and said the kids were still sleep Dad sat outside because he was frustrated and didn’t wanna wake the kids up. Me and my mom went to try and get something to eat but everything was closed. So we came back home and I got in the car with dad and GMA went in the house. Me and dad went to get something to eat. And came back an hour later got up stairs went to fix our bed and baby’s bed I ask dad if he wanted me to get him or does he want to this time. He told me to and so I went in brothers room and looked at my baby and noticed that he wasn’t breathing I felt his back and no pulse no movement at all I lifted him up and his face was really pale and I just started screaming his not breathing !!! Dad came and took him from me took him in the from and GMA did cpr on him and he was still not responding I called 911 and they came 5-10 mins later try cpr again nothing happened they rushed him to the hospital. We rushed to the hospital as well and when we came close to that room they said he was gone. He passed on Feb 18th 2024. Because at this point all of this could’ve been prevented if the hospital was doing their job and actually looked into why my baby constantly having these seizures. He was only 9 months old like you noticed that he had his second seizure and ear infection and didn’t do any test on him to make sure it wasn’t anything else. So I had an autopsy done on my baby and so far his biofire came back and my son had 7 viruses in his body. And with him being that little that is not normal or healthy for a child his age or period. The viruses are Adenovirus, coronavirus oc43, rhinovirus/enterovirus, flu b, flu a, para flu3, and RSV. They still don’t know the cause of his death right now as we speak. This is really starting to get us down to the point where we are not working at the moment and we need all the help and support we can get. We have 3 other children. This is breaking us to pieces because we are constantly reminiscing on how he passed and why he passed. I know we have to keep going for our other children but this is so hard. We miss our son. Anything helps. Thank you.
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Khadijah Jennings
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Columbia, MO