[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A 4-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after a weeks-long battle with a flesh-eating bacteria.
UK native Leanne Passey is opening up about her young daughter Reign’s terrifying medical case, which began with what she initially believed to be chickenpox.
She told the South West News Service earlier this week that after the chickenpox developed, she noticed a raised temperature and extreme exhaustion in her little one, which the concerned mother believed to be the result of group A strep. Related: Jay Leno Badly Injured AGAIN — Two Months After Suffering Severe Burns However, after a ring began to develop around one of Reign’s sores, Leanne rushed her daughter to a local emergency room, where… she was prescribed antibiotics and told to go back home.
But the worried mother knew there was more that needed to be done: The two continued to be dismissed by the medical staff, which eventually led them to a separate hospital — where they had to wait SIX hours as Reign’s condition worsened.
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