By Bill Galluccio
After spending eight months in the hospital due to complications from COVID-19, four-year-old
Stella Martin is finally going home. Martin was diagnosed with COVID-19 back in April after she went limp in her mother s arms while complaining of back pain.
She was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where doctors discovered she had developed Acute Transverse Myelitis, which causes acute inflammation in the gray and white matter in the spinal cord. She spent five months in the pediatric ICU while doctors tried to treat her condition, which left her paralyzed.
She was then transferred to another hospital, where she spent the next three months recovering. While doctors do not believe she will fully recover, her mother,
By Bill Galluccio
After spending eight months in the hospital due to complications from COVID-19, four-year-old
Stella Martin is finally going home. Martin was diagnosed with COVID-19 back in April after she went limp in her mother s arms while complaining of back pain.
She was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where doctors discovered she had developed Acute Transverse Myelitis, which causes acute inflammation in the gray and white matter in the spinal cord. She spent five months in the pediatric ICU while doctors tried to treat her condition, which left her paralyzed.
She was then transferred to another hospital, where she spent the next three months recovering. While doctors do not believe she will fully recover, her mother,
By Bill Galluccio
After spending eight months in the hospital due to complications from COVID-19, four-year-old
Stella Martin is finally going home. Martin was diagnosed with COVID-19 back in April after she went limp in her mother s arms while complaining of back pain.
She was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where doctors discovered she had developed Acute Transverse Myelitis, which causes acute inflammation in the gray and white matter in the spinal cord. She spent five months in the pediatric ICU while doctors tried to treat her condition, which left her paralyzed.
She was then transferred to another hospital, where she spent the next three months recovering. While doctors do not believe she will fully recover, her mother,