Her Bruises Kept Getting Worse And Worse, By The Time The Knew What Is Was It Was Too Late…

A sweet little girl has had both her feet amputated after contracting meningitis from “swimming in the sea”.

Brogan Partridge was holidaying in Cornwell for her parents’ honeymoon when she was struck by the deadly infection.

The Partridge Family from Birmingham, U.K., was enjoying a holiday in the coastal county of Cornwall when their daughter started feeling unwell. The mother, Aimee Partridge, spotted black and blue marks on her daughter, Brogan’s legs, and assumed they were bruises. Twelve days before the bruises appeared, Brogan had been diagnosed with an eye infection and was given antibiotics.

Little did they know at the time, the marks were actually not bruises, and instead they were a symptom of meningitis.

“It looked nothing like a rash, it looked more like bruising – at the time I never thought it was meningitis and that’s the problem,” said Aimee, who feels like the marks didn’t resemble the images that she had seen for meningitis symptoms.

Her parents took her to an emergency room, where doctors misdiagnosed the deadly infection, she told the outlet.

“She did not seem herself. She’d had a sleepless night and was vomiting,” said Aimee, 28, of Birmingham. “They sent us home, saying she only had a tummy bug.”

But she later developed a bruise-like rash on her legs, and her parents rushed her back to the hospital.

Doctors then found high levels of bacteria in her blood, which eventually caused her so much pain she was forced to have her feet amputated.

“We were devastated when Brogan had to have her left foot amputated due to the septicaemia,” she said. “We were later told told she will need to have her right foot amputated too.”

Meningitis occurs when the protective membranes around the brain and spinal cord become inflamed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. Normally caused by bacteria or a virus, the condition can be deadly.

Symptoms of bacterial meningitis include a stiff neck, headaches, fever, nausea, and vomiting. The bacteria can spread from person to person, and symptoms usually appear three to seven days after exposure, the CDC reports.

Brogan was soon fitted for a prosthetic foot and they thought that while they had challenges ahead, the worst was behind them. The infection had caused the main blood vessel in her remaining leg to die, leaving her in a lot of pain.

Brogan is now 11 and uses prosthetic feet.

“She is determined to get her full independence back,” her mom said.

“She knows the process and it’s not nice but children tend to adapt quickly to situations and I think that’s what Brogan is going to do,” said Aimee. “At first she was really upset but now she is realistic and really just wants it done and dusted. Having one foot to having none is going to be very different for Brogan – she’s going to lose the last bit of independence she has. There are always risks in everything but this is the sole solution that we and the doctors came too. They can never guarantee it won’t come back. We always hoped it wouldn’t have to come to this but after seeing the impact it was having on her we thought it’s the best option we have.”

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Source: AWM