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13-year-old Calvin Lock almost died after his mother gave him a dosage of fluid Nurofen.
The doctors even told his family that the boy will be going blind.
The horrible incident happened when Calvin fell sick on September 2012 with a sore throat and Robyn provided for him a dose of strawberry-flavored Nurofen after his GP said he had a viral disease.
After six days he came back to the GP with a rash and was diagnosed with chickenpox and given anti-infection agents.
The following morning, swelling and rashes had showed up over his body and he was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
His body lost 65 percent of his skin. Not only that. His fingernails and hair fell off. They have to put him on life support machine for three consecutive days.
Specialists at first told his family he just had chicken pox. But later on, he was diagnosed with a more serious condition called Stevens Johnson Syndrome which causes the cells in skin to die before shedding like a snake.
But the boy’s condition exacerbate, developing into a Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis which contained him in the hospital for almost three weeks.
Despite facing such condition, his mom Robyn Molt and stepfather Daryn Chambers were surprised for the strength he gave to get through this.
However, Calvin already developed an eye infection that will make him visually blind in the following two years.
He also endures chronic fatigue, full body scarring, mouth and throat issues, depression and has been diagnosed with PTSD.
His mom said, “It’s an autoimmune condition which will never go away. His body will constantly attack itself forever and it’s devastating to watch. Calvy feels like he has constant grit in his eye, it’s extremely painful for him. I try to make him take responsibility but I also don’t want to nag, I feel helpless. If he forgets to put his eye drops in he’s left rolling on the floor in agony. The condition left him with memory loss and this means he frequently does forget. He struggles to run around with his friends, it’s so much to recover from and he keeps trying to fight it and can’t accept that his life has changed. His personality is different now, what he went through was so traumatic that he needs treatment for PTSD. “He’s so intelligent and bright but now he can’t be bothered with school, he doesn’t see the point because he doesn’t think he has a future without his eyesight.”
The couple is currently arranging legitimate activity against the NHS, guaranteeing the first misdiagnosis has aggravated his condition much.
They accept Addenbrooke’s could have accomplished more to keep the contamination and its reactions if staff had acted sooner.
The couple also claimed he was twice wrongly diagnosed with chickenpox and an authority witness utilized by their legitimate group said the determination ought to have been put to a more senior specialist.
“I’m determined he will have a career and an education, and we want to be able to buy him the equipment he will need, such as audio technology, to help him through life.”
Calvin will be discussing his experience one year from now at The House of Commons where they will be fighting for National SJS Awareness and dispatching the first NHS Awareness Poster Campaign.
He and his mum have recently had their philanthropy SJS Awareness authoritatively enrolled and began a site sjsawareness.org.uk.
In the midst of the issue, Addenbrooke’s Hospital declined to remark as well as Nurofen.
