At present, thanks to medical advances, hygiene and that we have at our disposal the possibility of carrying out a balanced diet, there are many diseases that occur with a few days of convalescence and that they end up healing alone.
Many, but not all, and that is why vaccines continue to exist and there are still drugs and professionals able to help heal diseases that decades ago were incurable. But that happens, of course, if the patient goes to these professionals.
His name is Seth johnson and he was seven when he fell ill a few weeks ago. His parents preferred to pray for him, for his health, instead of taking him to the emergency room, and a few days ago he passed away.
I had pancreatitis and sepsis
As explained in The Independent, the child suffered from pancreatitis that resulted in acute sepsis (a generalized inflammation in response to an important infection).
Apparently, since he had been sick for weeks and the parents were confident that he would be better soon, they decided to continue with their day-to-day life and go, as planned, to a wedding to which they had been invited.
On the weekend of the boy's death, his parents left the child in the care of his 16-year-old brother and left two days to attend the event.
Now both Timothy and Sarah Johnson of Plymouth, Minnesota, must appear before the courts accused of negligence in the care of their child. Mike Freeman, a Hennepinhan County attorney, explains his opinion about it.
We cannot understand how a father leaves a seven-year-old boy very sick in the care of a 16-year-old boy so he can leave for a weekend. Nor can we understand how parents refused to return home on Sunday morning to take care of their sick child when they were notified of their serious condition. Nor can we understand why the parents did not call an ambulance on Sunday night to immediately get medical help when they finally arrived home. The Johnson, of course, believe themselves innocent. But we will use all our resources to prove they are guilty.
They had problems with doctors
In the weeks before his death, the child's deterioration went further. There were nights I didn't sleep, I had tremors, blisters on my legs and I could barely eat. However, the parents decided that it would be enough with pray for your health and heal your injuries with an antibiotic ointment and "medicinal honey", because they preferred to avoid doctors, with whom they had problems of some kind.
That weekend, as we have explained, the parents went to the wedding. The eldest son called on Sunday to explain that Seth no longer wanted to eat and that he was "lethargic and flabby." This was not enough for them, because they did not return; but it was not enough to see him in that state at night, because they just bathed him, prayed again for his health, and put him to sleep.
But the boy died. He died because it was not prayers he needed, but doctors. He died because it was precisely in them that their parents should believe in a time of serious illness, and it was to them that their requests and hopes should be addressed. Like so many parents who don't trust medicine and pay it dearly.
