Created: May 02, 2021 08:14 PM
The Greig family from Buffalo, Minnesota, watched their daughter, Samantha, last week while in a medically induced coma at a Minneapolis hospital for a serious condition associated with COVID-19.
The 13-year-old was diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, according to the family, after learning she also tested positive for COVID-19. They put her on a ventilator, said Angela Greig, Samantha’s mother. They couldn t get her fever under control, there was inflammation all over her body, her kidney, gallbladder it s been very touch-and-go.
In the days before the hospital, the family said Samantha’s symptoms worsened from stomach and leg pain all the way to a high heart rate and trouble breathing.
Teen hospitalized with rare condition linked to COVID-19; family thankful for support from community and beyond
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