Only in Woman’s Day Relief should be the feeling that comes as you walk through the doors of a hospital with a sick child in your arms. And that is how Elouise Massa expected to feel when she took her 22-month-old son, Joe, to the emergency department at Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney’s north on September 14, 2024.
Joe had vomited the evening before and, after a restless night, he was floppy, pale and clearly miles from the cheeky, dinosaur-loving little boy who was at his happiest trotting after his two older siblings, Teddy, seven, and Grace, five.
“You hear about hospitals being run off their feet but it was quiet when we arrived, with lots of empty beds,” Elouise, 38, tells Woman’s Day.
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