CHARLOTTE – The mother of a Madison Middle School student who is fighting for her life after a bout with the flu, strep and pneumonia is encouraged by her daughter’s resilience and responsiveness to treatments.
Sarrah Lewis, a seventh-grader at Madison Middle School, remains on life support at Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte as of Feb. 7, according to Lewis’ mother, Tiffany Cassidy.
Cassidy said Lewis, who was set to have a heart procedure Feb. 7. came down with influenza B in late January.
According to her mother, as of Feb. 7, Lewis was receiving extracorporeal life support treatment, also known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or life support for the lungs.
Lewis had shown considerable progress in her responsiveness to her family, her mother told The News-Record & Sentinel.
“She’s not been taken off all life support. Her heart was taken off of life support, and they’re doing a procedure today,” Cassidy said. Feb. 7. “The lungs will still be on life support.
“But, she has, in the past three days, she has responded to us, had the echocardiogram, the life support got turned down and she is making great progress. I’m ecstatic.”