Doctors: 8-Year-Old H1N1 Patient 'Miracle Child'
Palm Beach Gardens Girl Spent More Than 3 Months In Hospital With Swine Flu
MIAMI -- Doctors are calling an 8-year-old Palm Beach Gardens girl a "miracle child."
Cameron Pirozzi was cleared to return home Thursday after months of bravely fighting the swine flu.
Her parents said Cameron came down with a cough and fever in late June.
"I remember one morning waking up and feeling very hot and (I) barely could keep my eyes open," Cameron said.
Her parents took her to St. Mary's Medical Center on June 27.
"The next day, her lungs were completely white and by Wednesday, July 1, she was put on a ventilator," her mother, Kelly Pirozzi, said.
Doctors found that her left lung had collapsed. It took a month before she tested positive for swine flu.
She spent months at Miami's Children Hospital. Then in September, she was admitted to Jackson Memorial Medical Center for rehabilitation, where she had to learn how to walk, talk, eat on her own and dress herself.
Dr. Seema Khurana of the Jackson Memorial Medical Center said Cameron received physical, occupational and speech therapy as well as neuropsychology and social work in addition to medical attention and nursing.
Her mother said they were proud of how Cameron beat the swine flu.
"(There's a sense of) pride that we feel (about) how hard she has worked every minute of every single day since she got sick to come home to us," Kelly Pirozzi said.
Cameron said she's happy to be home with her family and looks forward to going back to school.
"I'm happy because it's the first time that I get to see my brother in three and a half months," she said.
The family said they plan to celebrate with an unforgettable birthday party for Cameron, who will turn 9 in a few days."
See you can actually educate yourself and still have faith ...and they have more experience with life and death than most arguing here.
These doctors know they can only do so much, without Gods help.
Who do you thank for your blessings?