Florida family without passports stuck on cruise ship with sick child

A Florida family has been stuck on a cruise ship while they say their 4-year-old son with autism is in need of urgent medical attention.

In posts on Facebook that have now been shared and commented on hundreds of times, the boy’s mother Nicole Mejias says her son Roman fell shortly after the cruise started, leaving him with a small cut above his eye.

But the cut, she says, rapidly turned into a serious infection that’s now red and swelling.

“This is just a mess,” Mejias said in a Facebook Live post on her page. “Something we did not expect obviously."

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