Levittown mom says her daughter is hospitalized with vaping-r

A Levittown mom says her daughter has been within the hospital for the previous 10 days with a vaping-related sickness.

Felicia Cartagena took her daughter Grace to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bethpage after she was having hassle respiration.

Cartagena says her daughter remains to be working a excessive fever and coughing. The Levittown mom says her daughter has been vaping for the previous couple of years.

“The docs say it is positively from the vaping pen, whether or not it is the marijuana ones or the nicotine,” she advised Information 12.

Cartagena says the docs are telling her Gracie situation has not improved.

“What [Gracie] retains saying to me is that she would not need to die,” says Cartagena.

Cartegena says she hopes she will be able to get her daughter transferred to a different hospital quickly the place she will be able to get a second opinion.

Information 12 reached out to the St. Joseph’s for affirmation of the vaping-related sickness. They weren’t in a position to revel any affected person info resulting from HIPAA legal guidelines.

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