Mile 3
Scarlett Wood. 4 years old. PICU graduate.
Mile Sponsor: Dr. James Spaeth and Christine Spaeth, Stay Strong Scarlett
It was hope that kept Scarlett Wood alive when all life-saving measures had failed at another New Orleans-area hospital. After an E. coli infection brought their 17-month-old daughter to the brink of death, Brenna and John Wood were faced with the unimaginable decision to pull her off life support. Dialysis was failing, and eventually Scarlett coded as her parents watched in horror. Over two and a half hours of touch-and-go lifesaving efforts, little Scarlett was connected to a heart-lung bypass machine, while an MRI revealed she had suffered a stroke and an anoxic brain injury, in which her brain had been deprived of oxygen.
With a glimmer of hope still left, the family turned to Manning Family Children’s, where Scarlett defied all odds to make a miraculous recovery.
Although doctors once predicted she would never walk again, today Scarlett is 4 years old and the Queen of the sidewalk – running, jumping, and soaring on her scooter to keep up with her big sister.
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