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Posted on 09/23/2009 9:06:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
MANNING, SC (WIS) - A 11-year-old Sumter girl who attended Laurence Manning Academy has died according to her family.
Ashley Pipkin's family says she died while riding in an ambulance headed to Palmetto Health Richland hospital in Columbia around 2pm Wednesday.
Hospital officials say Pipkin died of pneumonia from flu-like symptoms she had been suffering from. Pipkin's family adds Ashley had already visited Tuomey Medical Center in Sumter twice for the same issues.
Ashley's mom, Brandi, says the 5th grader felt fine last Friday and didn't feel any symptoms until Monday when she woke up sick.
Brandi says Ashley was diagnosed with the flu on Monday and was given Robitussin with codeine. She believes Ashley had a bad reaction to the codeine on Tuesday because she woke up with red welts all over her body.
Doctors at Tuomey then diagnosed her with pneumonia in her left lung, but it began to creep over to her right lung.
Ashley's family is obviously very shocked and saddened by her death. They described her as athletic and energetic.
"This is very serious," said Ashley's cousin, Selena Moore. "For Ashley to be as healthy as she was and this just hit her Monday and here it is Wednesday we're mourning her death. Please, any onset of any symptoms, please go to your doctor, go to the emergency room and be seen."
Laurence Manning Academy Headmaster Spencer Jordan shut the school down on Tuesday after nearly 300 students stayed home sick. He couldn't imagine the situation would lead to death.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to Ashley's family," said Jordan.
Pipkin's also says that every time Ashley got sick that she had trouble breathing, so officials are looking into that further.
Ashley's father, Tony, is currently in the emergency room for the flu and her brother is also being checked out for flu-like symptoms.
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Prayers for the family.
RIP.
her parents did everything right...took her to the doctor, the emergency room, etc....
some things just happen...
it might have been a bad staph infection....not the flu...
but reguardless, God bless this child and her family....
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NO cheers, unfortunately.
Prayers up.
Thanks, S&A.
Oh, my. What a tragedy. Prayers for her family.
Pneumonia is well known to be an infection secondary to Influenza. She very well may have developed Pneumococcal Pneumonia, which progresses rapidly (it killed Jim Henson of Muppets fame). There is also a condition called Cytokine Storm, although I haven’t heard whether this is prominent with H1N1 yet.
Also, the CDC has been saying all along that the young are more severely affectecd, unlike the seasonal flu, which traditionally is worse in the elderly.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
The whole article isn’t available, but I get the point.
Interesting that it resembles bird flu, since the Swine Flu H1N1 is comprised of pig, human, and BIRD influenza viruses.
Prayers
Something doesn’t sound right, does it. If she was having trouble breathing and was diagnosed with pneumonia, she should have been kept in the hospital and under 24 hour nursing and doctors care. (According to a doctor friend.)
Your opinion please.
It could have been a variety of respiratory infections - bacterial, mycoplasma, or viral. I couldn’t even begin to guess which one given the small amount of information. Going to the Riverboat would be better odds. Tragic case, but things like this happen every day. More Americans die of respiratory disease every day than from accidents.
Thanks, LucyT.
Prayers for this family.
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