- Memphis Teen Almost Dies After Bitten By A Brown Recluse Spider
- Tianna Mosely Is Rushed To Le Bonheur For Treatment
- Doctors Use An Experimental Drug From Mexico To Save Her Life
(Memphis, TN/October 3, 2011) 16-year-old Tianna Mosely knows a thing or two about being a long distance runner and a survivor.
Mosely said, "I like doing long distance. It's easier. It cools me down. I don't get tired too quick."
Tianna has been on her school's track team training to compete against other runners. But she had little idea that she was yet to face her biggest hurdle in life when she suddenly got sick.
Mosely said, "I was just saying that I need to go to the hospital. I didn't know what was wrong because I was feeling really bad."
Tianna's mom, Tiffany Mosely, noticed her daughter was also running a fever and her skin was beginning to change.
Tiffany Mosely said, "Her temperature was still up and when I saw the white bumps and she was hurting, I said we are going to Le Bonheur."
At first doctors thought she had some type of infection, but it turned out to be something potentially deadly.
Tianna Mosely said, "That's when I told them I was hurting everywhere and then my doctor said point where it's hurting and I pointed where it is at and they said I had gotten bit by a spider."
But it wasn't just any spider. It was a brown recluse spider. Tianna had to moved into the ICU for a few days, and then back to a regular floor, but she took a turn for the worse.
Tianna Mosely said, "Her lungs had failed to work and she was on a ventilator whose setting had been turned up as far as they could go. There was really no room for her except to put on a machine that's a heart lung bypass machine."
Tianna only had a 50 percent chance of survival, but her physician, Dr. John De Vincenzo, an infectious disease specialist at Le Bonheur, had one more option and that was to try to secure an experimental anti-venom from Mexico and get FDA approval for it to help save her life.
De Vincenzo said, "I started to investigate the possibility of the anti-venom and then five days later when she got very, very ill we were well on the way to have that medicine here and to give it to her."
The FDA gave its okay and doctors gave her the anti-venom and within days Tianna's family noticed a miraculous recovery
Tiffany Mosely said, "Like I said it's a blessing because God gave the doctors the ability to be able to work on her and discover the medicine. I know it was the work of God."
De Vincenzo said, "She certainly got a lot better a lot quicker when the medicine was given and she's now looking like she's ready to start track again."
Tianna Mosely is now ready to start track again and ready to become a long distance runner in life because of the care she received at le bonheur.
Tianna Mosely said, "I'm feeling good because for one reason I thank God for saving me, too and my doctor."���
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