“He was a very smart boysuper fun, happy, wanting to play like any other, but very obedient”. Felipe Mulet Gomeza little of 4 years of the Florida neighborhood of Alicante, who died on March 30 at the General Hospital of Alicante after suffering meningitis bacterial that took his life in a few hours.
Despite the tremendous impact of the unexpected loss of a hitherto healthy child, Felipe’s parents decided to donate the little boy’s organs in an altruistic action that partially mitigates her pain by thinking that something of her son is still alive in other people.
“Our son has died to help six children,” say the parents. “We are broken but we have another 3 year old son and we can’t do anything but cry when we can. This is a kind of tribute to the child”explains the father, José Mulet, about his decision to publicize the decision to donate the child’s organs, heart, lungs and other vital organs.
“We are broken but we have another 3-year-old son and we can’t do anything but cry when we can. This is a kind of tribute to the child”
“Despite this stick, in 15 minutes the alarms went off and they prepared everything to start it up. It never crossed our minds that this would happen to our son. and that we consider the donation. We had a small hope that a miracle would happen. When they said no, the miracle was him. We donated all of his organs. If we can help why wouldn’t we. It’s what we have left, in a way it’s through other children.”
Felipe developed meningitis from a bacterium despite the fact that, the parents explain, He was vaccinated with three doses of the meningococcal B vaccine. Health inoculates the you drink against this disease two, four and twelve months of age, and now assumes the cost of the vaccine, which is around 100 euros per dose, but the parents of this child paid for them since at that time the families paid for it. The doctors explained that in 98.7% of cases it is effective.
According to the devastated parents, the child began on Monday of last week, March 27, with symptoms similar to a cold such as fever and cough, and They took him to the Emergency Department of the Alicante Hospital. The disease did not show its face at that time but he had a bad night and on Tuesday morning they took him to his pediatrician at the health center because the fever did not drop below 40 degrees, and the professional referred him urgently to the hospital.
“It never crossed our minds that this would happen to our son and that we would consider donating. We had a small hope that a miracle would happen. When they said no, the miracle was him. We donated all his organs”
There they did an analysis and a puncture, “and meningitis was already coming out and it was rampant. It was somewhat invasive and in four hours his brain swelled. We knew things weren’t looking good but like any parent you pray that he’ll be back the way he was. The rest of the body worked fine except for the brain. Something like that makes me angry in a few hours it will get out of hand because there is no way to catch that”. Felipe died two days later after being connected to a respirator in his last hours.
“It was somewhat invasive and in four hours his brain swelled. We knew that things were not looking good but like any parent you pray that he goes back to how he was”
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The boy went to the Gabriel Miró public school. “There is no consolation possible for this, a broken mother and a broken family, but I have another son and he doesn’t deserve this. We do not assimilate this situation.”
To the enormous sadness of the loss of his eldest child, “a disgrace, no parent should bury a child“, the concern for the little one is added. “His brother calls him. We complained about the fights, the screams, and now we miss them, the void he leaves is the worst. He was a very good boy, and for him to leave suddenly is a great sadness “.