A four-year-old girl died just 24 hours after she was diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis that had infected her spine and brain, her devastated mum says.
Evie May was acting like her "happy, normal self" but then at breakfast she didn't want anything to eat and complained about having a headache.
Later, she told her mum Courtney, from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, that she had a stomach ache and she became sick before her temperature spiked to 40.1C.
Courtney, 20, called 111 for advice and an ambulance was sent to the family's home to rush Evie to hospital, where medics battled to save her life, the Manchester Evening News reports.
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Evie had suffered brain damage and was put in an induced coma, but she died in hospital just days later.
Her mum is speaking out to warn others of the dangers of Meningococcal type B, saying the days since her daughter's death have been "dreadful" and she keeps thinking Evie is going to run into the room "any minute".
She said babies have been vaccinated against the virus since 2015, and Evie had just missed out on it by months.
Courtney, who has a nine-month-old son, Carter, said Evie began to feel ill while visiting a friend on the morning of March 22.
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Before then Evie had been her "happy, normal self", said Courtney.
The mum added: "We'd gone out for breakfast, but then she didn't want anything to eat. She said she had a headache.
"We went back home and then my friend came to pick us up to go to her house in Moston.
"When we got out of the car she said she had bellyache. I said 'are you going to be sick?'
"I tried giving her Calpol. She was sick in the toilet. Then she fell asleep on the sofa. Then she was waking up and speaking to me as normal."
Courtney took Evie home but noticed she was "heavier than normal" and sleepy.
The mum added: "I took her into the house and took her temperature. It was 40.1C. I rang 111 and they sent an ambulance straight away.
"I tried to wake her up and her eyes shot open. Her pupils went massive. Her arms and her legs went stiff. I didn't know what was going on.
"She was trying to go to sleep. The ambulance came within 10 or 15 minutes. They told me she was having a seizure."
Paramedics rushed Evie to North Manchester General Hospital.
Courtney said: "I was petrified. She was still having seizures. They thought it could've been down to her temperature. I was absolutely terrified.
"When I think of seizures, I think of shaking. She was just going stiff.
At the hospital, medics began assessing Evie, who was losing consciousness, and gave her a CT scan, antibiotics, antiviral medication and anti epileptic medication.
Doctors determined she had suffered brain damage, and put her in an induced coma.
In the early hours of March 23, Evie was transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital, where she was put on a ventilator and admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit.
Medics were unable to save her from the deadly infection, and she died on March 27.
Her devastated mum said: "I just broke down. I just sat there thinking 'why has this happened?'
"I still can't get my head around it now. I was hoping for the best, that she was going to get better. She's never been ill or in hospital.
"She's only ever been happy and healthy. I am 20-years-old and I have never heard of Meningococcal type B.
"The nurses said there was nothing they could have done. She had it in her spine and her brain."
She added: "I want to make sure that people know about this. I thought a rash was usually a sign of meningitis . But eight times out of ten people don't get a rash. I thought she had a normal bug."
Evie has given the gift of life to others.
Her heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and pancreas have been donated.
A three-year-old girl received Evie's heart in a life-saving transplant, bringing some comfort to Courtney.
The mum said: "She will live through other people. She has given that little girl a chance."
Paying tribute to her daughter, she added: "She was amazing. She was always happy.
"She was a chatter box. She had a massive smile and big brown eyes. When you looked at her you could fall into her eyes. She was beautiful. She was like a little mum to her baby brother Carter."
Courtney said loved ones have been helping her through her grief.
She said: "I have got a lot of good support around me. I have got lots of family and friends."
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help the family pay for Evie's funeral.
