A 14-year-old girl rushes to the hospital a few seconds after her death after a doctor wrongly diagnosed her with an abscess in her brain

A teenager was left seconds of death after her GP dismissed the symptoms of an abscess to the brain and prescribed her tablets for the disease.

Thalia Elliott began to feel bad and visited her GP in Wales, complaining of an unbearable illness.

Her family initially thought that she was suffering from food poisoning and took the young woman to her GP who prescribed her tablets for the disease and Dioralyte to help her get better. # 39; moisturize.

However, two days later, the surgeons told her anxious parents that they did not know how she was still alive after discovering an abscess in her brain that was on the verge of killing her.

At that time, the 14-year-old girl had undergone two rescue operations, the second of which due to the proximity of the abscess to her brain.

His parents had already been told to say goodbye at that time.

The surgery, incredibly, saved her. But she suffered two strokes. Her family was then told that the teenager could be damaged to the brain after initially thinking that she was suffering from a stomach virus or a waterborne infection.

"Thaila is the most beautiful, the most remarkable and the strongest girl who has never complained," said her aunt Ceri Elliott-Pitman.

"She always has a huge smile on her face despite everything she's been through.

"She deserves to be back with her friends and lead a life without care, like other teens."

Thalia started to feel bad in July 2018 and her aunt Ceri said something was wrong with the teenager, after she became "lethargic".

"His parents became more and more worried. They went to the doctor at Prince Charles Hospital. They thought that she had an infection of the water and sent her home with antibiotics.

After a second visit outside working hours, where she was fired again, Thaila took a more difficult turn at home.

"She was like a rag doll. Her nan had to hold her up and her eyes rolled in the back of her head, "added Ceri.

"She got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and her mother found her in a crisis.

An ambulance took Thaila to the Prince Charles Hospital, where doctors initially struggled to understand what was wrong with her. But the alarm bells started ringing when a clear, foul-smelling liquid began to drip from his nose.

"A nurse came to watch her and she could feel it on the other side of the room. They took a look at his students and from then on, chaos reigned in the room.

& # 39; A crash team has arrived. Thaila was at that moment unconscious and she was put on a survival machine.

An MRI revealed that the 14-year-old girl had a mbadive abscess that put pressure on her brain.

Ceri said: "Our world has collapsed at that time. It was horrible. They explained how bad it was and that she would need to be transferred to the University Hospital of Wales.

"Initially, they wanted to take her by air ambulance, but since she was too unstable to be transported by helicopter, they decided to take her by regular ambulance.

"No family member was able to go to the ambulance with her because there were both paramedics and air ambulance personnel. We have just followed with our own cars.

The family did not know whether Thalia would go to the hospital or not, where she would have subsequently undergone two emergency operations to drain the fluid on her brain.

Before her family could see her, Thaila was admitted for an emergency surgery consisting of removing part of her skull and draining the mbadive abscess.

"They think it could have been caused by an infection that started in his sinuses," said Ceri.

In the intensive care that followed the operation, the distraught family was told that Thaila's pupils were not reacting and that she was perhaps deadly cerebral.

In the parish for less than an hour, her brain pressure skyrocketed and her parents were asked to say goodbye.

An badysis revealed that Thaila's brain was swollen and that there was only a window left a few minutes before he touched his brainstem.

The surgeons said that there was only the slightest chance of saving Thaila by performing a second emergency procedure to remove some of her skull in order to relieve the pressure. At this point, she was almost literally on the verge of death.

Lisa Elliott, her weak mother, said: "They managed to perform the intervention on time. After the operation, Thaila's state of health is a little stabilized and she was placed in a vital support coma.

"The doctors told us that they had never experienced a scenario similar to that of Thaila and that they did not know how she was still alive."

The second operation, which could easily have cost him his life, helped reduce the pressure and swelling of his brain.

However, the doctors confirmed that the high school student Afon Taf had been hit twice.

Lisa added: "The abscess, which was on her left frontal lobe, had killed her part of her brain that controlled speech, short-term memory loss and decision making.

"I think they said that whatever the outcome, we had a long way to go. But to be honest, all that was important to me at the time was that she was still alive.

Thaila is now unable to walk and has spent the last six months in the hospital.

After the operation, Thaila was gradually weaned from her coma and started to breathe on her own, but did not regain consciousness. She was later transferred to an owl room at Noah's Children's Hospital of Wales Ark.

After other procedures, Thaila's left hand began to move and she opened her eyes several times. She started to smell people's watches and bracelets to try to find out who was with her.

On August 29, 2018, more than a month after her first surgery, her teenager underwent another operation to replace the part of her skull that had been removed.

From there, she progressed slowly but steadily. She regained consciousness and started copying the faces her family shot at her.

Her NG tube was removed while she was beginning to swallow food by herself. After regaining some strength, she embarked on an intensive physiotherapy program to try to get her moving again.

Aunt Ceri said: "She is now on the path she has left to recover her normal, cheeky and happy state.

"Because of the blow, her right side is really affected, she is in a wheelchair and can only talk a little bit.

"We also discovered that Thaila had also lost hearing of her abscess, so she is now profoundly deaf."

Thaila's family has launched a major fundraising campaign to raise funds for private physiotherapy and have a cochlear implant installed to help them hear better.

Ceri said: "She had to relearn all over again: she was able to keep her eyes open, to sit, to have to use her arm to do everyday things, talk, eat again, read on the lips – all the things we take for granted every day.

Thaila just got out of the hospital and her mother Lisa added, "Last summer, we suddenly entered a completely different world.

"One minute we treated a water-infected child and a minute later she was undergoing a major brain operation to save her life. It was unreal.

"But Thaila is a miracle and I can not believe that I have stayed away from all that she has lived, that she is doing so well.

"I do not even find the right words to thank the doctors who saved his life.

Our lives are different now but I would not even think of the life we ​​would live without them.

"Without the extraordinary care Thaila received, she would certainly not be here."

Thaila, who has two older sisters and a younger sister, left the hospital three weeks ago, after nearly seven months of treatment, and now lives in a bungalow in Merthyr.

She was good enough to celebrate her 14th birthday on December 22nd with her friends and family.

If you would like to donate, please visit www.gofundme.com/help-thaila-sue-elliott-our-warrior-walk-again.