Three days after a routine dental procedure, a Minnesota teen who was reported dead due to an alleged cardiac arrest is actually "alive, but not well," according to her mother Diane Galleger.
Sydney Galleger, 17, had wisdom teeth surgery, and during the procedure, her blood pressure shot up and her pulse fell suddenly due to a heart condition that the family wasn't aware about, reported Fox News.
The dentist's staff and paramedics rushed to perform CPR on Galleger, and she was brought to the hospital immediately after her heart began beating again. She was then transferred to University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, where doctors said that Galleger meets nine out of the 10 criteria to be considered brain dead.
Diane Galleger, the mother of the junior at Eden Prairie High School outside Minneapolis, shared her story in an ominous post on the Caring Bridge health support website Friday, saying that it was "the most devastating news we have ever received."
But on Monday, the teen's mother said she had misinterpreted the news and that her daughter is not dead and is still recovering.
The doctors confessed that there is nothing they can do for Sydney, but she continues to hang on breathing over her ventilator that's inserted in her mouth, CBS Minnesota reported.
"She is a fighter," she wrote. "She is still alive."
There has been an outpouring of support from family and friends. Sydney's hospital room is filled with photos and well wishes for the teen.
In the earlier post, the mother wrote: "We want to rewind to Monday where we had our happy, healthy, funny, beautiful 17-year-old daughter," she wrote. "As we look at all the pictures covering her hospital walls, we can't believe this same happy, healthy, funny, still beautiful daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, and friend is lying in that hospital bed."
She also noted that her daughter had signed up to donate her healthy organs.
