Hunter Peterson: Boy, 14, has almost half his skull removed after being diagnosed with meningitis from a sinus infection

A 14-year-old boy suffering severe headaches and a fever was turned away by doctors on two occasions before it was eventually discovered he had meningitis and an abscess on his brain.

Hunter Peterson, from Wauchope in Port Macquarie’s southwest, spent the eve of his 14th birthday on an operating…