She's like, ‘I don't know who ordered the labs and who was reading the labs, but they tested her to see if she was vaccinated for hepatitis A,’” Grzankowski said.

And the lady called me back and said Phoenix doesn't have hepatitis. “Monday morning, I decided to call the health department myself because I wasn't waiting for anyone at that point. This is all normal with hepatitis,'” Grzankowski remembered, “’Just go home.’” And they came back and said, ‘Well, she's eating.

Like they didn't even do anything at all. “We got her back to the hospital and told them that we were told to have them call the pediatrician and that most likely they were going to set up transport to Levine's. So the hospital gave her some food and just left the room. Then she started gagging and puking foam, according to her mother. They rushed her back to the hospital, where Grzankowski said, again, doctors didn’t give her daughter treatment. Phoenix did get worse. The next day, she woke up from her nap, still seeming lethargic. Grzankowski said she was advised that Phoenix could fight the infection on her own, but if she got any worse, to take her back to Mission. Her liver enzymes were slightly lower, but definitely higher than they should be. She also saw that doctors noted an enlarged lymph node in Phoenix’s liver.Īs she panned over the lab results, Grzankowski saw that next to the line “Hepatitis A Antibody, igG,” the result read “positive.” She took this to mean that her daughter had Hepatitis A.Ī few hours later, she got a phone call from a doctor at Mission confirming her suspicions – Phoenix had hepatitis A. They left the hospital and drove back to their home in Arden. Grzankowski leafed through Phoenix’s discharge papers, trying to make sense of them. Phoenix's discharge papers confirm that the family came to the hospital because of abnormal lab results, and that doctors prescribed no medications during the visit. “They had came in the room and said that the labs looked better than in the morning, and that she could go home and that they weren't doing anything,” Phoenix’s mother said.

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