CLEVELAND (WJW) — On a warm, sunny Tuesday, for the first time in more than a month, Amani Smith-McDaniel got to feel the fresh air on her face, surrounded by the people who love her most.
“She is doing awesome — way above the doctors, the nurses, anything in the medical book. She has surpassed it,” her mom Nicole McDaniel said.
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What began as a routine day at cheerleading camp last month turned into a medical crisis. Amani complained of stomach pain and within hours she was rushed into emergency surgery.
Doctors discovered a ruptured abdominal cyst. An infection led to sepsis, a potentially fatal condition…