“We often stayed in the hospital because simply oral therapy could not raise the level of calcium, which was extremely low,” Petrovic explained on Facebook. “We hoped that the collective immunity would protect her in the course of an epidemic.”
According to the post on “Light for Riley,” “a growing anti-vaccine movement in Serbia” has lead to “a measles outbreak with thousands and thousands of cases reported.”
Days later, her daughter came down with a fever. “I knew immediately what it was,” Petrovic said. “I trembled, cried, but REALLY hoped it was not measles. On the same day in the evening, Nadja drowned in a dream from which she never woke up again … she did not eat, did not drink, she did not wake up, she did not respond … she was getting worse every day, her needs for oxygen were bigger, and we received confirmation that she was contaminated with measles.”
She wanted to share her incredibly heartbreaking with the world on social media, “in order to educate parents who have doubts about the vaccination of their children. Every child has the right to be protected from infectious diseases.”
Petrovic feels “Nadja became a victim, giving up her own life, to show how this harmless child’s disease can endanger one’s life. Now it’s up to us to share her story so that nobody suffers like she did. My angel left me too early, but I will fight so no one forgets here and goes through what I went through.”
With hope, parents who are on the fence about vaccination will hear this mother’s plea.
