Comments ( 26 ) What a horrible story. And what disturbs me is that when Daniel first got sick, the hospitals don't seem to have done any type of scan. When I fell ill on Easter Weekend 2004 (the worst time), the hospital in Paris dismissed my concerns and like Daniel, sent me home with major laxatives. After I pitched a fit, the young intern paternalistically took an x-ray, but declared me fine. The next day, I received an urgent call from the Chief of Radiology, who was reviewing the weekend's x-rays: my bowel had flipped & was nearly blocked! I was lucky not to have surgery, but another surgeon who saw the x-ray later said I was d*mn lucky not to have died. The lesson is this: nobody willingly goes to hospital to discuss their bowels unless they are in REAL pain. And a scan or x-ray should be done in these cases. RIP Daniel. When I was 3 years old I had a ruptured appendix, for 5 days, local doctors told my mum it was a tummy bug, said I was annorexic (I was 3 with a swollen stomach!) and even told my mum I was "looking for attention". My mum knew something was wrong and called an ambulance, by the time we'd got the hospital, I had had peritonitis for 3 days which had poisoned my blood. I was in intesntive care for 2 weeks. I am now 30 & have numerous problems resulting from the operation.