tossed from hospital to hospital
In March 2021, Shiloh shows her breast to her mom. She has small pimples and a kind of orange peel. They then rush to an imaging center in the region. The management of the establishment remembers having examined the young girl. “She presented with a swollen, warm and painful breast, symptoms which clinically evoked an inflammatory or infectious process of the mastitis type (an irritation of the breast generally without gravity), infinitely more frequent than cancer at this age”, can we read in the Parisian.
At the beginning of April, the state of Shiloh is not better. Her mother decides to take her to the emergency room. “We were asked if it was the cat that had scratched her,” explains Diane. No palpation. For the staff who receive it, it looks like mastitis. Shiloh is then referred to a dermatologist and is put on antibiotics for two weeks.
Shiloh had tears in her eyes, she said: You’re not going to leave me like this
On May 2, Diane discovers stains in her daughter’s bed. The breast began to ooze. The family doctor sends Shiloh to a hospital center near Argenteuil. “Shiloh had tears in her eyes, she said: You are not going to leave me like that”, remembers Diane with our colleagues from Parisian. Shiloh is placed on antibiotics and hospitalized for nine days.
After this hospitalization, Shiloh’s condition does not seem to improve. She still doesn’t know what’s wrong with her and her breast continues to leak fluid. On July 3, a biopsy is performed.
A “grade II breast angiosarcoma”
The diagnosis finally came in August: Shiloh was suffering from cancer, precisely a malignant tumor called “grade II mammary angiosarcoma”. One of the doctors will note: “This angiosarcoma is not breast cancer, it settled on the breast but might also have appeared elsewhere on the body.”
A chemotherapy protocol was put in place on August 18. The response is first positive, then the tumor progresses, with metastases. The last session takes place on November 4. Shiloh died on December 8, less than nine months following the first signs appeared.
Caught in time, there was the possibility that she would pull through
Shiloh’s parents, Diane and Modibo, intend to file a complaint once morest the health establishments and the attending physician who saw their daughter. “Caught in time, there was the possibility that she would come out of it. Even if it takes ten years, I will go through with it,” said the mother. The latter is convinced that it was the medical wandering linked to Shiloh’s young age that killed her daughter.
