Bundaberg mum thanks health heroes after daughter’s near-death ordeal

A Bundaberg mother has revealed the harrowing moment her four-year-old daughter's beach day turned into a life-threatening emergency requiring an induced coma.

Four-year-old Milly suffered a major seizure and was rushed to hospital by paramedics.

A Bundaberg mother of three has described “the scariest day” of her life after her music-loving little girl suffered a freak seizure in a horror ordeal that lasted through the night.

Jas Vee said the day started out as normal before four-year-old Milly suffered a near catastrophic medical episode at her Bundaberg home.

By the evening of Friday, October 10, the little girl had been flown to Queensland Children’s Hospital and put into an induced coma.

Ms Vee said Milly “was in a great mood, dancing around, full of smiles” in the lead-up to the incident and there were “no real warning signs”.

Milly, who is autistic and mostly non-verbal, had spent the day with her family at the beach.

After arriving home, Ms Vee noticed her daughter asleep on the couch, which she said was not overly unusual for her.

“I thought, ‘Gosh, she must be worn out’,” she said.

Milly, 4, suffered a major seizure after a day spent at the beach with her family.

She later saw Milly alert and awake playing on her iPad before joining her cousin in another part of the house.

When Milly’s insulin pump alarm went off, Ms Vee rushed upstairs to find the young girl “staring into space” with her finger in her mouth.

“Milly fell to the side and I freaked out (…) is she having a f--king seizure,” Ms Vee said.

She said after calling emergency services about 3pm, they arrived within 14 minutes and paramedics informed her they would have to put Milly into a coma.

After Milly’s parents were warned she would have to be put into a coma, her mother said, “I was so scared she was going to die”.

About 4.40pm they arrived at Bundaberg Hospital and despite multiple doses of drugs, Milly was still suffering a seizure.

In a private waiting room at the hospital, Ms Vee and her partner Nick were updated by both doctors and paramedics on their daughter’s condition.

“The paramedics actually apologised to us for not communicating everything they were doing before we got to the hospital, which of course we were like that is so fine,” she said.

“They are the reason our girl is alive.”

At Bundaberg Hospital they were confronted with their small daughter covered in tubes and faced with the terrifying reality she would have to be flown to Brisbane for life-saving treatment.

Milly’s mother described the harrowing moment her daughter started having a seizure.

Ms Vee said they were told that Milly would need to be in the paediatric ICU on a ventilator, which they don’t have at the Bundaberg Hospital.

When they arrived in Brisbane, the parents were told CT scans done in Bundaberg Base Hospital revealed Milly had a cyst on her brain that “they didn’t think was the cause of the seizures” but an MRI was done as a precaution.

“It was really sad, Milly strained so hard to say ‘help me’ about three times,” she said.

“I was so scared she was going to die.”

Milly is now recovering at home and on anti-seizure medications.

After Milly, 4, suffered a major seizure and was rushed to hospital by paramedics, her mother has praised the quick actions of paramedics who arrived at their Bundaberg home to help.

After the horror ordeal, Ms Vee shared a post online praising the work emergency services did to save her child.

“The people who work in healthcare deserve to be appreciated way more than they are,” she said.

In the midst of the family’s crisis, Ms Vee said one of the nurses learned Milly loved Taylor Swift and played the star’s hits for her in the ICU.

In a message to the “angels on earth” who saved her girl, Ms Vee said, “I know you’re ‘just doing your job’ but your presence is the difference between life and death for so many people. I hope you go home proud of yourself every day for the difference you make.”