I cannot for the life of me find an online article detailing this. It was in our local paper, but not the local paper’s online equivalent.
Friday, Dec. 9, a nine-year-old little girl (whose name I can’t recall) was giving an oral report in her classroom at De Anza Elementary, a sister school in the district where I teach (Baldwin Park). It was after the speech that she began complaining of a headache; within an hour, she was dead. She died of a brain aneurysm, and although pronounced dead at the hospital, died at the school (!!!). She had no medical history to suggest this kind of tragic turn of events.
The family, like many in the area, is very low income and at the time of the article’s printing couldn’t afford a funeral. Sheezo…all this, just before Christmas, just before vacation. Yar.
I am concerned for the child’s teacher–and all of her schoolmates. They’re all going to be terrified of having a headache…how do you explain sudden, inexplicable death to third graders who witnessed it?!
Why doesn’t life follow the rules?? 