symptoms worsened, doctors airlifted the sick teenager to University of Chicago Hospital.
Her family said that’s when things got worse, fast.
‘She said, “I’m going to be OK, Mom.’
‘I have no words for it. I just can’t believe how fast that it progressed,’ said her father,
Don Simental.
. ‘And no parent should ever have to watch their child go through that.’
The teen’s parents were by their daughter’s bedside as she passed the day after Christmas Day.
‘She said, “I’m going to be OK, Mom.’ And that was the last thing,’ Deborah Simental said.