Aaron then went back to bed, but 30 minutes later Deniz said she heard “screaming” coming from upstairs.
“He was having a seizure. Anthony had gone into his bedroom to see what was going on,” she said.
“His eyes were open but he was fitting and unresponsive, he didn’t know we were there.”
Paramedics were at the house within 14 minutes and suspected meningitis almost immediately.
Deniz said her son had not suffered any typical symptoms of meningitis, such as a rash or a stiff neck, just a headache.
He was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital, where his mother said he began to “calm down”.
“I thought at the time, being in the ambulance, that the antibiotics had started to kick in,” she said.
“I later learnt that it was Aaron losing most of his basic brain function before he’d even got to Worcester.”
Aaron was later transferred to Coventry for brain surgery but family was told after the procedure that it “would not be good news”.
On 3 January, just days after his initial seizure, he was pronounced dead.
