Volleyball player, 14, went from walking to paralysis in a few HOURS

A young athlete went from walking to paralysis in just a few hours after contracting a mysterious spinal staph infection. 

Sydney Fowler, 14, from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, started complaining of a headache and a backache in December 2018.

Her parents, Jeremy and Christi, drove her to the emergency room, but the doctor sent her home with ibuprofen, convinced that she has merely sprained her back.

The next day, Sydney started having trouble moving and feeling her legs, reported Fox 5 Atlanta.

Her parents rushed her to the hospital, where physicians found a staph infection that was running up and down the length of her spine. 

The infection was cleared with surgeries and antibiotics, but Sydney has a long road to recovery with intense physical therapy to regain her mobility.

Sydney Fowler, 14 (pictured), from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, began complaining of a headache and backache in December 2018

Sydney Fowler, 14 (pictured), from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, began complaining of a headache and backache in December 2018

The ER doctor sent Sydney home with ibuprofen. Pictured: Sydney playing volleyball

The next day, she started having trouble feeling and moving her legs. Pictured: Sydney playing volleyball

The ER doctor sent Sydney home with ibuprofen. The next day, she started having trouble feeling and moving her legs. Pictured, left and right: Sydney playing volleyball

Prior to the staph infection, Sydney was training in karate and CrossFit in addition to playing on one of the nation's most competitive girls' volleyball teams. 

'One day we were playing volleyball,' she told Fox 5 Atlanta. 'And, the next day, I couldn't feel my legs.'

Doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina found a staph infection had penetrated her vertebrae and compressed her spinal cord.  

Staph infections are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, which are commonly found on the skin and in the nose of healthy people.

In most cases, the bacteria causes nothing more than a

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