I watched my happy ten-year-old daughter deteriorate until she couldn't even stand up to go to the bathroom, so I decided to ignore the doctor's advice and rush her to the ER. The triage nurse took one look at her pale face and immediately called for a stretcher, and that was the moment I realized we were dealing with a life-threatening emergency After hours of terrifying uncertainty and multiple MRI scans, the orthopedic surgeon walked into our room with a grim look on his face and delivered th

Progreso en Rehabilitación de Fractura de Tibia

Urgent Hospital Visit: A Mother's Intuition Saved Her Daughter

Hours passed. Blood tests, scans, worried whispers in the hallway. When the orthopedic surgeon finally walked into the room, the look on his face told me everything before he even opened his mouth. She needed emergency surgery. Immediately. It wasn’t growing pains at all. It was a severe bone infection — osteomyelitis — spreading fast through her tibia and dangerously close to her bloodstream. The surgeon told me that if we had waited even one more night, she could have gone septic. I felt sick.