California mother shares daughter's difficult COVID journey

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A Bakersfield parent shares her daughter's hard travel successful recovering from COVID-19. She adjacent had her appendix removed earlier doctors realized it was thing wholly different.

Magen Zimmerman says her nine-year-old daughter, Londyn, is conscionable a shot of vigor who loves moving and playing soccer.

She contracted COVID-19 successful August, but similar astir kids, she wasn’t affected by it.

At least, that’s what they thought until a mates of weeks later. She began processing precocious fevers and tummy pain.

That was aft her girl had spent days with a 104-degree fever. Doctors had initially thought it was her appendix, but her fever persisted aft country to region it.

After respective studies were done, doctors concluded she had MIS-C oregon Multi-Inflammatory Syndrome, affecting her heart.

“As a mom, it is simply a hard happening to swallow and determine what is close due to the fact that if it had been an appendix and they hadn't removed it, past it is similar what bash you bash you know, what is the close choice,” said Magen.

Dr. Patel, a pediatric rheumatologist astatine Valley Children's Healthcare, says MIS-C started astir 2 years agone arsenic a assemblage effect to COVID successful radical nether 21.

She says the immune strategy is impressive, but it tin besides beryllium robust.

“It tin make tons of inflammation to support you. So, for immoderate of these children, the immune strategy has gone a small into overdrive and is present not needfully calming down, and these patients past contiguous with these symptoms and are rather ill,” said Dr. Patel.

Although symptoms could alteration by case, she recommends parents and teachers to look retired for signs similar tummy pain, dizziness, vomit, tegument rash, and bloodshot eyes and question infirmary attraction arsenic soon arsenic possible.

As for Londyn, Magen says though it has been a agelong travel that volition proceed with much follow-up care, she is conscionable blessed to person her girl backmost home.

“It was hard, you know, and to yet beryllium capable to travel location and bring her location and cognize that means she is getting amended to beryllium capable to spell home. That was the champion part,” said Magen.

Magen says she appreciates each the doctors' enactment and is conscionable blessed to spot her girl yet slumber successful her furniture alternatively than a infirmary cot.

Vania Patino and Muska Olumi astatine KERO initially reported this story.