BALTIMORE -- Parents who suddenly lost their daughter to meningitis have filed a lawsuit against the doctors who treated her.

WBAL-TV 11 News reporter David Collins reported the family and the estate of Lauren Truslow, 9, seeks $10 million from Emergency Medicine Associates, the company that operates the emergency room at the Carroll Hospital Center.

Collins reported the family is also suing the attending physician for not diagnosing or treating Lauren's symptoms in a timely manner.

Tammy Truslow described her daughter's death as "a parent's every worst nightmare, and then some, because she's never coming home."

"It's just disbelief that something so simple could have fixed her and that they didn't do it, and I have to have to live with that and without her," said Robb Truslow, Lauren's father.

In their suit, the Truslows blamed Dr. Sybil Pentsil, an emergency physician at the Carroll Hospital Center.

"This child went through an awful lot before she died, she had conscious pain and suffering before she died, but nothing would compare to the ongoing grief Mr. and Mrs. Truslow felt over watching their daughter die," said Marvin Ellin, the family's attorney.

According to her parents, Lauren was a healthy, vibrant child who loved to dance and was very active in school.

On June 4, Lauren's temperature shot up to 106 degrees and she experienced vomiting and diarrhea. She complained of having a pounding headache as her left ear turned purple and a rash developed that covered one of her legs, leaving her unable to walk.

The Truslows rushed Lauren to Carroll Hospital Center. According to the family's attorney, when Lauren's fever went down, the hospital sent her home with Motrin and instructions to call her pediatrician.

"Sending the child home was simply begging for a tragedy to happen," Ellin said.

Lauren's condition worsened at home and the Truslows returned her to the hospital. According to the lawsuit, only then did doctors start antibiotic treatment, but it was too late. Lauren was flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital.

"All I could do was hold her hand and I didn't know that was the last hour and a half of her life," Tammy Truslow said.

Emergency Medicine Associates has not returned a WBAL-TV's request for comment and Carroll Hospital Center has already expressed their sympathy to the family.

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