Surviving cancer at a young age is a situation that is difficult to overcome at a young age. An 11-year old girl, cancer survivor, was hospitalized wi...
Surviving cancer at a young age is a situation that is difficult to overcome at a young age. An 11-year old girl, cancer survivor, was hospitalized with a head injury and remains at the hospital for a completely different reason than the purpose of her visit. This time she is recovering from a series of third degree burns she acquired there when her shirt mysteriously caught on fire.
Ireland Lane was painting in her room when moments later she was running down the hallway screaming with a fiery t-shirt at the Portland, Oregon Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, per a KATU report.
“I’ve been in medicine going back 30 years now and never heard anything like this. And hopefully I never will again,” Dr. Stacy Nicholson, physician-in-chief at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, told KATU.
“Our safety experts are working closely with the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office on its investigation,” Nicholson added in a statement to ABCNews.com. “We anxiously await the their findings and will certainly make adjustments if the cause was preventable.”
Instead of leaving the hospital on Feb. 2, she will have to remain at the hospital a bit longer while she undergoes treatment for third-degree burns on her earlobes, neck, chest and arms at Legacy Oregon Burn Center, per a report by the Oregonian. At that hospital she is listed in serious condition.
On Thursday Lane will undergo a second skin graft – it’s her twelfth birthday.
“She’s quite a tough one,” the girl’s father, Stephen Lane of Klamath Falls, Ore., told the Oregonian. “She’s been through more than any child I’ve ever heard of, and to still walk around with a smile on her face and enjoy the things of the day that are going on, and be a kid is to me pretty amazing.”
Ireland still has bad dreams, according to her father. She does not remember the fire, however. But he can’t seem to forget it. He was in the same room as she when the mysterious fire lit his daughter’s garment. She was painting a wooden box as a gift for her nurses. Meanwhile, he was asleep. He was woken by the loud screams of his daughter running down the hospital ablaze.
Down the hall staff was able to extinguish the flames. It remains a mystery to them how the fire started. It is a mystery that officials are attempting to piece together and solve.
“I can handle all of it — I’m a dad and I’m supposed to,” Irelands father told the Oregonian. “But I hate seeing her unhappy stuck in a hospital again.”
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