A Greater Manchester hospital trust has apologised after medics missed symptoms of sepsis in a teenager, leaving her with PTSD.
26.08.2023 - 10:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Just a few months after DJing for thousands at Parklife, Olivia Lee was being stretchered out of her flat. The 24-year-old musician had made a name for herself in Manchester as a host, dancer and DJ and was an active member of the city's burgeoning creative scene.
However, her life was turned upside down when she woke up the morning after her Parklife gig in pain. What followed next was months of suffering and a quest to find out what was going on with her body.
Working in the entertainment industry meant going to different events and socialising with local artists and execs. With roots in north and south Manchester, Olivia describes herself as “Mancunian born and bred”.
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She is well known, well loved and well connected. So her sudden use of crutches and sometimes wheelchair lead to a barrage of invasive questions that she wasn’t not ready for and did not have answers to.
“It was very frustrating,” she said. "Especially at first, people would ask me and I had no idea myself. All that I knew is that I’m in pain everyday.
“Every time someone asked me, it reminded me that this my whole entire reality and I can’t escape it. I went through a stage of trying to explain to a stage of being like ‘I actually don’t want to explain.’
“Also what I found is, when I went out in my wheelchair no-one would ask anything, when I was on crutches people would always ask.
“So there’s also an assumption that we make within society of people who are in wheelchairs and on crutches.”
Olivia began feeling what she described as ‘nerve pain’ in in September 2021. Despite multiple trips to A&E and her GP, Olivia says she spent months unaware of what her ailment was
A Greater Manchester hospital trust has apologised after medics missed symptoms of sepsis in a teenager, leaving her with PTSD.
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