A Tewksbury 7-year-old accomplished a goal she set out to tackle while fighting off a horrible skin condition that left her in the hospital for eight days. The youngster and her family fosters dogs, and when her hospital stay stopped her from saying goodbye to their second foster dog, she became determined to help 10 dogs find a home by her seventh birthday.
Ariana Swenson was about to reach her sixth birthday when she came down with Staph Scalded Skin Syndrome.
“The staph infection that started really small on her face started to spread very quickly,” her mother Kasey Swenson said. “It attacks the top two layers of their skin pretty much everywhere, but the lower part of legs and arms. It causes the skin to blister and peel like a burn. In essence it looked like her entire body was burned.”…