06/10/2026
In May 2022, Logan was a healthy 8 month old baby when he suddenly became unwell with what was later diagnosed as pneumococcal.
His mum Beth tells his story:
"It was Monday, the day after Logan turned 8 months old, when I arrived home to hear that he had a fever and had been asleep for longer than usual.
With this not being our first kid, we knew that kids got fevers and some Panadol should do the trick. The next day (Tuesday) was pretty normal with Logan looking fine and participating in our outings, but we were still giving him regular Panadol.
On Tuesday night, Logan had a large vomit which prompted me to take him to Perth Children’s Hospital’s Emergency Department.
After spending 7 hours at PCH and the doctors asking a number of questions and doing some checks that didn’t prompt any alarm bells, we were told that it was most likely that Logan had gastro and that we could stay in ED or go home and watch how he went and if things didn’t get better after 5 days, to come back.
The thought of dealing with gastro in an ED room didn’t seem like an ideal location so we went home.
Wednesday was pretty stressful as we spent the day just watching and waiting and giving Panadol/Nurofen as discussed with PCH doctors.
Some time during the night, Logan started making a weird grunting noise which we put down to stomach ache. We just tried to get through the night and hoped the day would be better.
On the Thursday morning, my husband noticed that Logan had a twitch in his arm and he wasn’t quite himself. We decided to take Logan back into PCH.
The car ride into PCH was stressful as Logan started looking really sick. It had only been about 36 hours since the vomit on Tuesday night.
When we got there a nurse came outside. She took one look at Logan, took him from me and moved incredibly quickly to the resuscitation room.
What felt like something out of an episode of a medical drama then kicked in, and the room filled with doctors and nurses all doing something different and all working very quickly. Logan was taken off to have a CT scan and we took a sigh of relief when we asked about the results and not much was said.
