Katie Sullivan is a Central Valley Excessive Faculty graduate who’s a gymnast and freshman softball participant at Waynesburg College.

Her mom, Shannon and Katie’s household has been by her aspect hoping for a miracle.

“She’s a wonderfully wholesome 18-year-old, who on Sunday was combating for her life,” she instructed WPXI.

Katie’s household defined that she had been affected by decrease again ache which she assumed was from her athletic coaching.

“This has been extremely scary. Katie shouldn’t be one to complain about a lot as a result of she’s very athletic,” Katie’s father Tim instructed the printed channel.

However just some days after celebrating Christmas at dwelling, she was in hospital with low blood stress and excessive heartbeat.

“Once they did the testing, they discovered she had a UTI for a couple of month that really prompted a gap in her kidney. It prompted an abscess in her liver into her again muscle and behind her kidney. She was in septic shock,” Shannon instructed WPXI.

Earlier this week Katie was capable of transfer once more head and even gave a thumbs as much as her mother when requested if she wished to go dwelling.

“For the primary time, I requested her if she wished to go dwelling, and he or she shook her head sure. Then they requested her if she was in ache, and he or she shook her head no. I instructed her if she wished to go dwelling she needed to put a thumbs up, and he or she did. From not shifting on Sunday, and telling us hour by hour, at the moment is miraculous,” she added.

Whereas docs imagine she has an extended highway forward nonetheless, Katie’s household needs to ship a message to the general public: don’t ignore again ache.

“Even should you assume it’s nothing, please get it checked. As a result of by no means in one million years, and I’m a nurse practitioner, would I believe she can be right here with renal failure, intubated, and being given a dire prognosis at 18,” Shannon mentioned.