Posted on 10/27/2014 9:31:51 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
It was a landmark moment in her life and should have been one of her family’s most precious memories. But Harmonie-Rose Allen’s first steps are tinged with sadness for her parents. Just weeks after starting to walk, their daughter is to lose all of her limbs to meningitis. Harmonie-Rose Allen is currently in hospital facing amputation of both her arms and legs after she contracted meningitis. Harmonie-Rose Allen is currently in hospital facing amputation of both her arms and legs after she contracted meningitis. The 11-month-old is on a life support machine in hospital, suffering what doctors said is one of the worst cases of the deadly condition they have seen. Despite initially being given just a 10 per cent chance of survival, Harmonie-Rose is expected to live – but her arms and legs must be amputated. The tragedy comes just weeks after she took her first tentative steps with a baby walker. Family and friends in her home city of Bath, Somerset, are now hoping to raise more than £40,000 to pay for prosthetic limbs that will enable her to live as normal a life as possible. Harmonie-Rose’s aunt Hannah Hall, 31, said doctors did not think her niece would pull through, adding: ‘The family feel like Harmonie-Rose’s whole life has been robbed.’ The baby’s parents Freya Hall, 20, and Ross Allen first noticed something was wrong on September 27, when she woke in the night coughing. Mr Allen, a customer service worker, said: ‘She had been a little bit under the weather all week. But we just assumed it was a cold and because she was teething we put it down to that as well'.
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There are at least 150 types of arthritis, non are curable, all they do is treat symptoms. And the drugs have some very nasty side effects.
Humeria is the #1 RA drug, very expensive. Humeria # 1 RA drug
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/02/04/the-truth-about-hpv-and-gardasil/
http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/humira
This is RA http://www.arthritis.org/arthritis-facts/disease-center/rheumatoid-arthritis.php
This is the #1 drug to treat it, and FDA is expanding it to other non RA uses as I type this.
Humeria # 1 RA drug
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/02/04/the-truth-about-hpv-and-gardasil/
http://www.rxlist.com/humira-side-effects-drug-center.htm
http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/humira
I could never use any of these drugs as I have leukemia/lymphoma in my family. Best wishes to you. I hope something helps.
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