A 12-year-old whose coronavirus nightmare began with unusual stomach pains and her lips turning blue

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,Business Insider•May 2, 2020


A 12-year-old who was on a ventilator for four days after being diagnosed with the coronavirus said that she "died and came back", the Associated Press reported.

Juliet Day from Covington, Louisiana was discharged on April 15, after spending ten days in the Oschner Medical Center in Jefferson — four of which were on a ventilator.
When the 12-year-old first started developing coronavirus symptoms, they were different from those usually experienced by adults.

Day's mother, Jennifer, said her daughter did not have any breathing problems but was vomiting and experiencing severe stomach pain instead. Jennifer, who is also a radiologist, first thought her daughter was suffering from appendicitis but became alarmed when her lips starting turning blue and her limbs went cold.

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Juliet ended up in the emergency room of a nearby hospital, where she suffered a heart attack. Doctors had to perform CPR on her for two minutes before she came back to life, and she was immediately airlifted to a larger hospital in Jefferson, which is roughly 40 miles away.

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She has since made a full recovery, with doctors saying that her heart is functioning normally again and that she will have a "totally normal life."

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