A TEENAGER sent haunting texts to his mum pleading for help after taking ill before he died.
Tim Fehring, 15, was visiting Europe from Australia when he became sick and was barely able to walk which teachers brushed off as homesickness.
The "fit and energetic" teen – a year nine student at Melbourne's Blackburn High School – started feeling ill on the first day of the trip.
To his disbelief, his illness was continually written off by teachers as homesickness – despite his visible weight loss.
Now the final texts he sent his mum Barbara have been revealed at the inquest into his death
"I almost threw up and am working on getting better so I can have a better time,” Tim wrote in a text to his mum on June 24, 2019, 7News reports.
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“I am going to sleep like a baby because it might be exhaustion. I have not slept in hours and I always feel dizzy.
“Love you mummy and will keep you up to date with more.”
Tim told his mum that he thought his sickness might have had something to do with the water he had been drinking.
But when he tried to buy different water he told his mum he could only get the same kindhe thought might have made him ill.
“Ugh, can you help me mum?,” he wrote.
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The youngster had developed an infection in his blood and lungs that turned into sepsis.
"Children shouldn't die, this is so tragic," his dad Dale told 9News.
"It hits you hard and it has been a hard three years. We have tried to cope."
On the first day of the trip Tim was sick in a street bin – which teachers blamed on the spicy food on the plane.
The following day, he awoke with stomach cramps and was still throwing up, which was put down to jetlag and the heat.
Teachers told his mum Barbara, but the coroner's report said it was largely put down to homesickness, reports Daily Mail Australia.
By the third day, Tim asked to go home and he was taken to a chemist to get medication as he still had no appetite.
The following day, he texted his mum pleading to go home.
Barbara requested her son see a doctor – but before he was taken to the hospital, Tim was forced to take part in a walking tour.
We miss him every day and when we do family activities there's a spare chair for Tim.
Feeling unwell, he had to sit down in the shade and according to the report was "exhausted, visibly pale and had noticeably lost weight".
He was then "thoroughly examined" by a doctor who confirmed he his symptoms "could be connected to homesickness".
Medics suggested after hours at the hospital that Tim was likely suffering constipation and homesickness, and he was told to drink water and eat fruit.
But the next day, the group travelled to Austria and Tim had to endure another walking tour, and he carried a "vomit bag" after asking not to take part.
The coroner's report read: "He had not improved and was walking slowly and looked puffed out and tired. He was pale and had black circles under his eyes.
FOUND UNRESPONSIVE
"Tim had told the staff that he wanted to go to hospital, but staff considered that he was trying to avoid doing the planned activities such as the afternoon's walking tour."
Barbara said she was "appalled" when she found out he was refused his request to see a doctor.
"The people in charge thought he was homesick but he wasn't," she said.
"He was a very fit, healthy and energetic kid who was always happy and always wanted to make those around him happy."
"For Tim to have left us so happy and excited to go away and within a matter of days deteriorate so fast, it astounds us.
"Every day is still extremely difficult. We miss him every day and when we do family activities there's a spare chair for Tim."
Teachers finally decided Tim should go home as he remained sick.
He was deemed "fit to travel" by a doctor despite not being examined, and a teacher asked for him to be prescribed anxiety medication.
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While there, Tim walked out of the room after complaining it was "hot and stuffy".
Moments later, he was found unresponsive on the floor with vomit on his clothes while his nose bled.
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