Meet Meilita Pilkionis, who had a spinal stroke at age 16 and is on her way back Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune © Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS She is a member of the Stagg High School tennis team.
Meilita Pilkionis, 16, plays piano and dabbles in painting. She relishes a good meal from Chik-fil-A, and Starbucks’ Pink Drink. Although she’s not a big reader, she likes math, and she’s looking forward to hanging out with her friends when she is back on her feet literally.
Pilkionis suffered a spinal stroke in November that paralyzed her all feeling and movement from the neck down was gone. It’s a day ingrained in the mind of her mother, Indre Petrauskaite, a Palos Hills, Illinois, resident.
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Palos Hills teen on rebound from spinal stroke
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