Bonnies Head Surgery Story
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Hello my name is Jo, I am Bonnies Mother.
I would like to explain my 13 year old daughters head surgery story, I don’t want this to happen to any other child. She spent 12 days in hospital from an infection caused by Covid, so now I think it’s time to let the world know.
She had Covid Boxing Day Dec 26th 2021, within a week later she had huge swelling on her eye, I thought maybe it was a severe case of conjunctivitis, due to Covid restrictions the doctors was phonecall only but a few days later it got worse and it then reached her forehead which caused a big lump, I took her to the GP, he said it was probably caused from coughing when she had Covid, that it was some fluid so he gave her some Nurofen and said to come back in two weeks time.
The swelling just got worse and worse, and she became more unwell, by this time I wasn’t happy waiting two weeks, so we took her to the walk in centre (health centre) and they said to give her piriton and to come back if it got any worse, it did get worse, we took her back again and they said this time to give her a bag of frozen peas to take the swelling down, they weren’t sure what was causing it, a few hours later it got much worse, we rang 111 and they took 24 hours to reply, my intuition said I needed to take her to hospital NOW.
Bonnie was given a room at the hospital as they told her she had to stay overnight, the Doctors at the hospital did a CT scan, MRI scans, they did her bloods and said that the infection reached her bone, and spread around her head and the bone itself had rotted, she had it cut out, it was a few hours operation leaving a HUGE scar on her head from ear to ear, a major head surgery and in a few weeks she has to have a metal plate fitted on her forehead so MORE surgery, more antibiotics for months, and months of more healing, she’s been through so much.
The doctors told us if we didn’t take her to the hospital that day, within two days she would of been dead. All this because it wasn’t looked into properly by the local GP. This shouldn’t NEVER of happened and should of been looked into.
We had to take time off work to look after Bonnie, she is on medication 7 times a day plus nurse visits for IV injections and saline water in each nostril and hospital visits. The road is a long recovery.
Im so glad we took her to the hospital in time.
If you or your child has any swelling from Covid please please don’t let this happen to you, get it seen too and don’t let the GP fob you off.
The swelling just got worse and worse, and she became more unwell, by this time I wasn’t happy waiting two weeks, so we took her to the walk in centre (health centre) and they said to give her piriton and to come back if it got any worse, it did get worse, we took her back again and they said this time to give her a bag of frozen peas to take the swelling down, they weren’t sure what was causing it, a few hours later it got much worse, we rang 111 and they took 24 hours to reply, my intuition said I needed to take her to hospital NOW.
Bonnie was given a room at the hospital as they told her she had to stay overnight, the Doctors at the hospital did a CT scan, MRI scans, they did her bloods and said that the infection reached her bone, and spread around her head and the bone itself had rotted, she had it cut out, it was a few hours operation leaving a HUGE scar on her head from ear to ear, a major head surgery and in a few weeks she has to have a metal plate fitted on her forehead so MORE surgery, more antibiotics for months, and months of more healing, she’s been through so much.
The doctors told us if we didn’t take her to the hospital that day, within two days she would of been dead. All this because it wasn’t looked into properly by the local GP. This shouldn’t NEVER of happened and should of been looked into.
We had to take time off work to look after Bonnie, she is on medication 7 times a day plus nurse visits for IV injections and saline water in each nostril and hospital visits. The road is a long recovery.
Im so glad we took her to the hospital in time.
If you or your child has any swelling from Covid please please don’t let this happen to you, get it seen too and don’t let the GP fob you off.
I would like all donations to go to Bonnie Ghent for being such a brave girl, she has missed school and not been able to see her friends, for a 13 year old girl this is so tragic.
Bonnie has to wear a helmet when walking about for her safety in case she falls or trips up, she currently has no forehead bone until she has her metal plate fitted Inside her head in a few weeks time.
Bonnie has to wear a helmet when walking about for her safety in case she falls or trips up, she currently has no forehead bone until she has her metal plate fitted Inside her head in a few weeks time.
The fighting spirits this girl has is remarkable, She deserves everything for being so brave.
I would be so grateful for anything given to Bonnie she really really deserves it.
ALL the money will go to Bonnie Ghent to treat herself to some things when she is feeling better.
ALL the money will go to Bonnie Ghent to treat herself to some things when she is feeling better.
Thank you everyone
Jo Curry & Michael Ghent (parents) x
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Jo Curry
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