DALLAS – A San Antonio youth soccer player remains hospitalized in Dallas nearly a week after contracting a rare, life-threatening infection.
Maddie Moreno, 13, was in St. Louis, Missouri, for a national soccer event last week when she developed a dangerous fever.
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Her condition got worse as she and her family attempted to return home to San Antonio on Saturday, causing Maddie to be hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Children’s Medical Center Dallas on her 13th birthday.
Maddie, a tenacious fullback and midfielder and a top youth soccer player in South Texas, remains in the hospital and “faces a long road to recovery,” according to a message sent Thursday by her club, Classics Elite Soccer Academy.
Supporters from Maddie’s school and soccer communities have rallied behind her and her family, starting a GoFundMe page and organizing the sale of T-shirts containing the slogan #MADDIESTRONG.
As of Thursday morning, the GoFundMe page had raised slightly over $7,600.
September, coincidentally, is Sepsis Awareness Month, which attempts to bring attention to the life-threatening condition in which the body attacks its own tissues and organs while fighting infection.