Mum-of-six Michelle Griffiths is facing losing parts of her toes and fingers after suffering multiple organ failure. The 28-year-old was originally told to "go back to bed" after doctors thought she was suffering from a kidney infection.
But the antibiotics the full-time carer was prescribed didn't work and two days after a house visit from a doctor the desperately ill mum had to drive herself to Ysbyty Gwynedd. Michelle, from Llanllyfni in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with pneumonia, sepsis, and a possible blood clot on the lung. The "nightmare" ordeal was only set to get worse as Michelle's life hung in the balance, said her brother-in-law Sion Hughes.
Speaking to NorthWalesLive he said: "On January 4 the doctor came round to visit her as she was really poorly but he kept saying: 'She's all right, she's all right' and: 'You can go back to bed'. Then, two days later, she had to drive herself to Ysbyty Gwynedd in absolute agony. We got a phone call at around 6am the next morning saying: 'You need to come in, it's your sister-in-law. She's not in a good place. We're not sure if she'll pull through but we've sedated her and had to take her to Glan Clwyd.' "When we got there we were told she had multiple organ failure so her liver, her kidneys, her lungs – everything had stopped working essentially.
