He could have been saved

Katrina Keegan, 26, Sunderland

Cradling my boy as he lay groaning on the sofa, I felt sick with worry.

‘Mummy,’ Sheldon, 4, moaned, before being sick for the umpteenth time.

It was November 2018, and this was unlike my boisterous boy who loved racing round the garden.

Over two days, an earache had turned into a raging fever.

He was refusing to eat or drink, could barely crawl off the sofa.

‘Better take him to A&E,’ I told