15-Year Old Left Blind from a Mysterious Illness After - Article Health

Doctors are searching for answers after a Missouri teen returned from a cruise with a mysterious illness that left her blind and without a sense of taste or smell.

In July 2017, Jordyn Walker had fun on a cruise with her family. But when they returned, she started experiencing stomach pain and bloody stools.

“It just went haywire from there,” Walker, 15, told WDAF. “Everything started swelling.”

She went to doctors in North Carolina, but their tests were inconclusive and they believed it was just a sinus infection. After the family got back home to Kansas City, Walker lost her sense of taste and smell, and she went to doctors and specialists for further testing.

“Everything came back normal,” her mom, Kendyll Walker, told the news station.

Jordyn’s symptoms subsided slightly, though the loss of taste and smell remained, and the family relaxed after doctors assured them that this was likely a “one in a million” issue that wouldn’t reoccur. But on Dec. 12, 2018, two weeks before Christmas, the illness came back more severe than ever.

“My whole face just turned purple and bruised and giant with blood,” Jordyn said.

She went straight to the emergency room at the University of Kansas Hospital for a 16-day hospital stay that included more testing and two surgeries to relieve the swelling that had concentrated around her eyes.

“It was terrifying to watch it happen all over again and knowing that we couldn’t do anything about it,” Kendyll said.



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