“Your son has 12 hours to live.”
That’s what doctors told Chris Lafferty when he brought his six-month-old son Memphis to the hospital in downtown Dallas. Seven days earlier, Chris had taken Memphis to the same ER when the infant’s symptoms had started, and doctors said it was just a virus that would pass. A week later, after Memphis starting turning blue and his eyes started rolling back in his head, doctors confirmed Memphis had bacterial meningitis.
“When they told me Memphis had bacterial meningitis, I said, ‘Alright. Can you just give him a shot?’ and they told me, ‘No. He has 12 hours to live. Call your family.”…