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STELLARTON, N.S. — When Kara Cameron of Stellarton put her four-month-old daughter, Bria, to bed one night in 2014, there was no indication or warning sign that five hours later, Bria would be fighting for her life.
Blood work results showed that her blood sugar level was dangerously low, and she was close to being in a diabetic coma. Bria was immediately airlifted to the, where she was quickly intubated and placed on life support for three days while her care team ran numerous tests to try and determine why she had become so sick.
When Bria reached seven months old, she became critically ill again, and her family was told to prepare for the worst. For 11 days, Bria received life-saving care in the“We had no idea what went wrong, why it went wrong and why she recovered,” shares Kara. “Everything was unknown, but we knew that she was incredibly sick.”
She is primarily nonverbal and relies on a limited vocabulary and sign language to communicate, but she is working on learning how to use a communication device. She also has severe muscle weakness and energy constraints that prevent her from going to school full-time or being physically active.
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