Flu leaves a 4-year-old girl blind in Iowa
CNNCNN — A 4-year-old girl in Iowa nearly died and is now blind because of the flu, and her parents have a message: Get your child vaccinated. “It’s terrible to see your child suffer like this.” Jade DeLucia, who did not receive a flu shot this season, caught the flu a few days before Christmas and spent nearly two weeks in the intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Just from looking at her, I really honestly didn’t think I was going to see her.” Amanda Phillips and Stephen DeLucia with their daughter, Jade DeLucia, at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. “It affected the part of her brain that perceives sight, and we don’t know if she’s going to get her vision back,” said Czech, Jade’s neurologist. “That’s no fun, but you get the vaccine not so much to prevent that as to prevent the chances of having a horrible complication of the flu.” Back in Iowa, Phillips and DeLucia are settling into their new normal with Jade, Phillips writing on Facebook on her daughter’s first night home: “My brave girl, who cannot see, but is loved by so many.”
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