By Ellie Stutsman When three-year-old Lucas Waring woke up feeling sick earlier this year, his mom Nikki thought it was the flu. However, it quickly progressed to a swollen tummy and erratic breathing. Nikki knew something was very wrong and took him to the closest hospital, Niagara Health’s Welland Site. His x-rays showed that his abdomen was filling with air and pressing on other organs. It was getting bigger by the second and his health was rapidly deteriorating. Soon, the pressure would cut off his blood supply and stop his heart. The Niagara Health emergency team knew he would need to be transferred to Hamilton Health Sciences’ McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) to determine the cause of air build up, but first they had to
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