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Gracie Foster was scheduled to undergo surgery to remove her tonsils at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital in October 2015, but the operation was canceled when she became ill in the room.
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The distraught mother of a 4-year-old girl, who died of a meningococcal infection a few hours after her return from hospital, told a coroner: "I took her away to die".
Gracie Foster was scheduled for surgery to remove tonsils at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital in October 2015.
But the surgery was canceled when she became ill in the room.
Gracie's mother, Michelle Foster, described how a consulting pediatrician told her that Gracie had had a viral infection and sent her home.
But a few hours later, her daughter became much worse and was taken to the Sheffield Children's Hospital where she died the same day.
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Testifying at an investigation in Chesterfield, Foster stated that Gracie appeared well before the scheduled operation on October 21, 2015 and that she was excited because she was missing the school. and that she would receive treats at her grandmother's once the operation ended.
Once at the hospital, Foster said, Gracie seemed happy in the playroom of the room, but she then heard a sound of "whinge" from her daughter and found her sitting in the middle of the room.
She said that Gracie complained of a sore throat and "appeared to be sedated".
When she was premeditated for her operation, Gracie vomited and a nurse found that she had a temperature of 104 degrees, Foster said.
She said that an anesthetist then told her that they could no longer do the operation but he did not examine Gracie.
Foster then waited 90 minutes without anyone checking Gracie before pediatrician consultant Dr. Tim Ubhi arrived.
She said that Ubhi had looked at Gracie's tonsils but had not done any further examinations.
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"The doctor said that she did not need antibiotics – she had a viral infection," she said. "She needed paracetamol and ibuprofen."
Foster said that she had been told to bring her daughter home, but that she was so "upset" that she had to take her out of the hospital.
"I thought she had to be fine, I took her to die, no one was worried about her except me, it seemed," Foster told the coroner.
Foster said he left Gracie at his mother's house, still thinking he had a minor virus.
But later, she received a call saying that her mother was worried and that she was taking him to the emergency room.
Foster said in the next call that she had been "crushed" at the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
"It was really strange to think that," she said. "No way she's so bad, she's fine, she has a viral infection."
She said she had the "biggest shock of my life" when she arrived at the hospital and found out that Gracie was "covered in tubes, 10 people all around her, absolutely covered up in the night. a purple rash.
"She did not look like him at all, I thought" how did that happen? "She says.
The coroner learned how a post mortem examination revealed that Gracie had died of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome caused by meningococcal infection.
She said that Gracie had brought back a letter from the school three weeks before her death informing parents that a school kid was suffering from meningitis.
Foster, who lives near Chesterfield, said she worried about the boy involved, but did not worry at all about his daughter as they had little contact.
And she told the coroner that the boy's condition was in no way comparable to that of Gracie.
The investigation must end on Friday.
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