36-year-old, mother-of-two, Sarah Allen, called the doctor when her son, Jasper, developed chicken pox not long after he got over a bout of scarlet fever.
It started with a few spots, which then multiplied into hundreds across his entire body in the next day.
That was when Allen called the doctor to get Jasper’s condition checked.
The receptionist who handled Allen’s call, however, told the anxious mother that “every mother thinks their child has bad chicken pox,” and insisted that Jasper didn’t need to see a doctor.
In the following two days, Jasper’s fever kept rising, and the red marks on his body were now raw, violently red, and incredibly itchy. Allen then just took her son to the doctor, where he received a prescription for antibiotics and medication to treat an infection.
The antibiotics didn’t make a difference on Jasper’s condition, so Allen took Jasper to the hospital.
There, the doctors and nurses all couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Once they’d fitted Jasper with an IV drip, stronger antiviral medication, and morphine, they simply stared at Jasper’s body.
Some of the staff wanted to send photos to a medical journal; the chicken pox was so severe, they were certain that it was the worst case anyone had ever seen. Allen remembered, “One of the pediatric nurses with 40 years’ experience said she had never seen anything like it.”
Jasper spent the next five days in the hospital and is now, thankfully, fully recovered.
