article_snippet: Cassandra knows these symptoms well - Cassandra had mastitis with Cassandra first child, Shikiera, now 15, and Cassandra second, Miles, now five. '
article_snippet: So when Cassandra had Cassandra third child, Jensen, now two, and started feeling unwell, Cassandra knew what was wrong. '
article_snippet: But whereas with Cassandra first two children the medicine worked quickly, this time it did not. '
article_snippet: Cassandra quick-thinking daughter, then just 13, grabbed a thermometer and took Cassandra mother's temperature - it was 41c.
article_snippet: In one moment of lucidity, Cassandra grabbed the phone and called Cassandra doctor, who told Cassandra to get to Wayne hurried home and stayed with the other children.
article_snippet: Cassandra managed to climb into a taxi.
article_snippet: By the time Cassandra arrived, Cassandra could barely string a sentence together and was hallucinating.
article_snippet: I knew this was very serious,' Cassandra says.
article_snippet: Cassandra was raced down to a high-dependency ward and attached to wires to monitor Cassandra heart, with a drip inserted for fluids.
article_snippet: For two days, Cassandra battled for Cassandra life, with distressed family and friends taking turns to sit with Cassandra and care for the baby.
article_snippet: Finally, on the third day, Cassandra turned a corner. '
article_snippet: The way I saw it, I was just unlucky that time,' Cassandra says. '