A mother was shocked when her son's eye turned white after being scratched by a cat. The family had been told by a doctor that the scratch was superficial and sent home, but the eye condition worsened.
Kate Godden looked at her six-year-old son sitting in the bath and suddenly realised their life would never be the same. Carlos Godden Nava, now aged 12, with his mother Kate Godden. “I had a complete freak-out, went out the back, broke down, and rang up the doctors.” Seven days earlier, Godden’s son, Carlos Godden Nava, had been scratched or bitten by a relative’s cat as it was startled by another child while Carlos was patting it, leaving Carlos bleeding from the eye.
Godden said she and Carlos’ father Manuel had driven their crying son from Shepparton about two hours to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne on the instructions of staff at the local hospital. But Godden claims she was told by a younger doctor at the children’s hospital that the scratch was superficial, and the family was sent home with instructions to see a GP in a week. As he sat in the bath on July 13 in 2017, Carlos’ left eye opened up for the first time in days, and Kate was horrified to see that the eye had turned white
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