Emma Bullimore, 44, Peterborough
True-life PATIENT CASEBOOK
Glancing over at my son, I was really starting to worry.
He had sunken eyes and a grey complexion.
It was June 2018 and for the last few weeks, Harry, then 15, had been battling tonsillitis.
Today, he could barely open his eyes.
As my husband Pete, 46, and I tried to lift Harry off the sofa, he collapsed.
We raced to Peterborough City Hospital.
Doctors took blood tests and rushed for a CT scan.
‘Harry has two abscesses on his brain,’ they said.
Transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, Harry was taken straight for surgery.
As we waited for a doctor, a nurse showed us around.
She took us to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, where Harry would be staying.
And then she…
