A Derby mum is heartbroken after hospital staff scoffed at her worries – but now her baby has cancer.
Jade Calladine noticed a lump under baby Amayah’s skin on September 22. When she went to hospital she says staff all but accused her of injuring her baby.
Jade said: “Amayah was admitted to the dolphin ward where they CT scanned her head because they thought we had fractured her skull. We were told if her skull was fractured they would be getting social services involved. She expressed this in a very aggressive demeanour.”
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The scan revealed this was not the case and Jade’s baby was discharged three days later. However, she noticed the lump was growing and returned to A&E on October 3 where again they were discharged.
GP suspected baby had cancer but hospital told him mum was ‘making such a fuss’
Jade contacted her GP who looked at blood tests done at the hospital and referred her to Royal Derby Hospital, saying it could be cancer. On October 9, Jade noticed another lump, and between October 10 and October 14 she attempted several times to get her baby treated.
In that period she also discovered another lump on Amayah’s head and another in her mouth. She went to her GP who again tried to refer her to the hospital but the staff were heard on the phone referring to her as “the lady who keeps making such a fuss”.
The situation worsened and on October 17 Amayah was admitted. Explaining, Jade said: “She had a feeding tube fitted and then required oxygen as her saturations were dropping.
“The following day they finally repeated her bloods and x-rayed her chest and stomach. To which they found she had fluid on her chest and a lump in her stomach and one attached to her kidney.
“The following day we was told in Amayahs blood a marker flagged up which does this when someone has cancer and was told she had a possibility of having three different types of cancer.”
Derby baby fighting for life in Nottingham Hospital
Amayah was eventually transferred to a hospital in Nottingham. Jade said: “She was sedated for a biopsy, bone marrow and a central line/hickman to be put in. They were then unable to take her off sedatives due to her having breathing difficulties and Amayah was put on a ventilator to support her breathing, which at one point Amayah required full support and was unable to breathe for herself.
