While some people think parents can be a bit paranoid about their children’s health, they know their children better than anyone else and can usually tell that something is wrong far before a doctor can.
So when one Montana mom noticed her 10-year-old little boy Keith, who loved playing football and was always energetic, started acting a little different, she knew something was wrong. Mom Mandy Pierce brought Keith to multiple doctors to figure out what was wrong with her son but was told he was fine.
However, a week later, Mandy noticed one of his legs start to swell up and a black mark appear on his leg so she rushed him to the emergency room. “I saw what appeared to be a set of fang marks,” Mandy said. “I tried to tell them that it was a spider bite.”
Instead of listening to her, doctors thought the mark was cancerous and started him on strong antibiotics. Two days later, doctors performed emergency surgery when sepsis set in, but Keith never woke up. “Keith passed away less than 24 hours later — one month and four days after his 10th birthday,” Mandy said.
And when the coroner examined Keith, he discovered that the cause of death was severe sepsis, after being bitten by a brown recluse spider, which is one of the most dangerous spiders in the United States.
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[Featured image: Facebook/Remembering Keith Pierce]
10-Year-Old Dies After Doctors Confuse Spider Bite With Cancer is an article from: LifeDaily