Oct 15, 2009 7:37 am US/Central Iowa Health Officials See Increase In Flu Cases
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Palm Beach Gardens girl to leave Miami hospital today after surviving swine flu
By ANDREW MARRA
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 15, 2009
An 8-year-old Palm Beach Gardens girl so sick with swine flu that she was on a respirator and unable to talk has made a complete recovery and will be released today from a Miami hospital, the hospital announced.
Cameron Pirozzi, a third-grader, was hospitalized in late June after a cough and 105-degree fever that progressed into respiratory failure, hospital executives said in a statement. She attends St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Palm Beach Gardens, according to WPTV.com.
It turned out she had H1N1, or swine flu, and she had to be sedated for six weeks and placed on a ventilator.
After treatment at two other hospitals, she ended up at the Holtz Children’s Hospital in the UM/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami.
She had to re-learn how to speak and walk.
“For a while the prognosis wasn’t good, but I never stopped believing she would fully recover,” said her mother, Kelly Pirozzi, in a statement released by the hospital. “This really is a miracle.”
Pirozzi will be released today - just in time to celebrate her ninth birthday on Saturday.
Jackson Memorial will hold a news conference this morning to discuss her recovery.
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