She’s now seeking an apology from Nova Scotia Health and the Colchester East Hants Health Centre after Paxton was sent home by two doctors in Truro, only to end up in emergency brain surgery at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
“For them to basically tell us to leave with a child that can’t even walk or say more than a couple of words and is hallucinating … that’s not normal, in my opinion,” said Weatherbie.
She said on top of the fact Paxton could barely walk or talk, he was vomiting, his forehead was protruding and his tongue was black and swollen. He also had a seizure seven hours earlier, which had never happened to him before.
“I carried him back out to the car, called the IWK and they said bring him straight down. He was in a CT scan under five minutes of being [there],” said Weatherbie.
Loss of consciousness is not a normal symptom of migraine or cluster headaches (even if some sufferers wish it would be). The moment the ambulance brought him in unconscious, the doctors should have started testing for meningitis, tumours, etc. The fact that they apparently didn’t suggests that they were either incompetent . . . or severely overworked and so exhausted that they couldn’t tell a zebra from a horse even when it shoved its stripy butt in their faces. This kid is lucky that his mom kept fighting for him, and lucky that they were close enough to a major city that “bring him straight down” was only a matter of a couple of hours of driving.