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Melanie Coleman, a 20-year-old student-athlete at Southern Connecticut State University, died from a spinal cord injury Sunday after she slipped off the uneven bars at the New Era Gymnastics facility in Hamden

“So, it’s kinda hard to treat something that you don’t know what it is. At each level, I asked about Bactrim to see if this could be something and with each time I was met with that they had never heard that that could be it.”

Abigail ended up coding, her heart stopped, they did CPR. They put her on what’s referred to as ECMO…the highest level of life support.

“The idea was to have her on that and give her time for whatever was in her that was causing this to either die off or to weaken enough that they could get a hold on it but on May 25th 20-18 she developed internal bleeding and we were given the choice to continue with very little hope and her father and I made the choice to withdraw treatment.”

Abigail lost her life 37 days after starting Bactrim. Her grieving father BJ Caldwell started googling ECMO. The life support Abigail was on. Some can live 2-weeks to a month on it. BJ found a young patient in Kansas City who survived with ECMO 189 days and even walked with it…she also, later passed. As he was reading her story…the girls’ ICU pediatrician at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas city pointed to clues that her symptoms may have been part of a severe allergic reaction to the common antibiotic, Bactrim.

“Her symptoms were kind of the same, you go from perfectly healthy and all the sudden lung problems I picked Abigail up from taekwondo on a Friday and on and then we’re in the ER, we’re in ICU on Wednesday.

Abigail’s parents reached out to the doctor in Kansas City. Now she, her medical records and autopsy are a part of a national study related to Bactrim. Dr. Jenna says there are 25 people in the nation who have contacted her…8 are part of her study Abigail is the 7th. The first five have been published. It’s suspected there are more…that will become a part of it.

“All the people who took Bactrim, all people who had hospitalizations or severe reactions. Most of them were people who had very severe respiratory failure, many of them did die,” said Dr. Jenna Miller, MD.

There is no cause of death but its highly suspected a negative reaction to Bactrim played a role.

Kylee Dawn Woods, of Turning Leaf Lane, died on November 16 at 2:35 p.m.

The coroner says the little girl passed away after suffering a gunshot wound.

Details surrounding the accident are limited. It is being investigated by the Pickens County Sheriff's Office.

Sunday night,

An incident report said Woods' father was attempting to unload a .40-caliber handgun, when it accidentally discharged, striking Woods, who was standing beside him. Woods was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The weapon was turned over to deputies at the scene.The father told authorities that he had only fired the weapon a few times but that it had never malfunctioned, the report said.

The report indicated that authorities took statements from two other people at the home. Their statements were consistent with the father's account.

Kira was born on November 22, 2004. On February 9, 2012, her world was changed forever. Kira was watching TV and she said everything was double, her parents thought she possibly needed glasses, so they went and saw her paediatrician and she was then admitted in to hospital to get several more tests done. Late that night, doctors confirmed she had an “unidentified mass" centered in her pons (middle section of brain stem) causing her 6th nerve palsy (double vision). Kira spent the next few days having every kind of MRI, CT scan, and spinal tap. Doctors said it was inoperable. Despite the diagnosis, Kira still wanted to play soccer and with the doctor's permission she did. She played with all heart and double vision. Kira had a biopsy done on March 29, 2012. The results came back DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). Kira was in for the fight of her life against a malignant brain tumor. It was inoperable and there isn't a known cure for it. She underwent radiation, more MRI and CT scans and had surgery to insert a port into her chest for her IV therapies. She remained in hospital, while doctors tried their best to shrink the tumour. On March 27, 2013, Kira was at home and she began having severe headaches, this couldn’t be controlled with her normal morphine. This was due to the brain tumor's increasing size. The next morning, on March 28, 2013, she had 2 seizures. Shortly after Kira took her last breath, holding her mother, father and brothers hands, listening to her favourite song. Rest in paradise Kira. _____________

Arabella was so badly beaten in her Trevorton home on Oct. 10 that she needed part of her brain removed. Since then, she had been at Geisinger Medical Center, needing machines to keep her alive.