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A North Carolina teen was healthy and athletic. The flu killed her in days.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown, Asheville Citizen Times
Posted at 11:49 AM
CANTON - On the morning of Dec. 30, 15-year-old Lacie Rian Fisher grudgingly conceded she wouldn’t be able to cheer at the Pisgah High basketball game that evening.
She’d been feeling achy and hadn’t had much of an appetite for the past couple days, but she had hoped to rally in time for the game. Her dad knew she’d been exposed to the flu over the holidays, but he figured Lacie just had a garden-variety winter bug, given her only symptoms were the body ache and clammy skin.
She retreated to her room for a weekend of bed rest and apple juice.
When she hadn’t improved by 9 a.m. Monday, Lacie threw on some clothes and climbed into her dad Keith’s truck for the quarter-mile drive to her pediatrician. It was less than 72 hours after Lacie felt the first symptoms.
But when Lacie stepped out of the truck, “she just kind of screamed out a couple times,” Fisher remembers. She crumpled to the ground, and “just went limp in my arms.” Lacie would never regain consciousness.
By 4:45 p.m., Lacie Rian Fisher — athletic cheerleader, straight-A student and beloved friend — was gone...
A North Carolina teen was healthy and athletic. The flu killed her in days.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown, Asheville Citizen Times
Posted at 11:49 AM
CANTON - On the morning of Dec. 30, 15-year-old Lacie Rian Fisher grudgingly conceded she wouldn’t be able to cheer at the Pisgah High basketball game that evening.
She’d been feeling achy and hadn’t had much of an appetite for the past couple days, but she had hoped to rally in time for the game. Her dad knew she’d been exposed to the flu over the holidays, but he figured Lacie just had a garden-variety winter bug, given her only symptoms were the body ache and clammy skin.
She retreated to her room for a weekend of bed rest and apple juice.
When she hadn’t improved by 9 a.m. Monday, Lacie threw on some clothes and climbed into her dad Keith’s truck for the quarter-mile drive to her pediatrician. It was less than 72 hours after Lacie felt the first symptoms.
But when Lacie stepped out of the truck, “she just kind of screamed out a couple times,” Fisher remembers. She crumpled to the ground, and “just went limp in my arms.” Lacie would never regain consciousness.
By 4:45 p.m., Lacie Rian Fisher — athletic cheerleader, straight-A student and beloved friend — was gone...