*People don’t DIE from the flu, do they? The mother of 12-year-old Alyssa Alcatraz thought little of the doctor’s flu diagnosis; after her daughter was sent home from school because she had regurgitating.
When the girl was taken to Urgent Care by her mother, Keila Lino, she was given meds for nausea and a cough “just in case” because…
…she had the flu.
“She’s been sick before with a cold and flu that has lasted longer,” Lino told Fox News. “It was nothing new for us. Like any normal teen, she just wanted to be left alone on her phone.”
But four excruciating days would pass with Alyssa getting sicker and sicker. She began to lose her appetite, and was very fatigued.
Again her mother took her to Urgent Care.
Doctors there told Lino that Alyssa’s oxygen levels were low. The child was then rushed to Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, California.
“The doctor wanted to rule out meningitis, though she wasn’t complaining about her neck, he didn’t want to rule it,” Lino explained. “We were starting to do that procedure to test her fluid when she coded.”
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