Gracie is recovering

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June 12, 2013 - 12:00 AM

HUMBOLDT — Little Gracie Dillow was all pooped out Tuesday afternoon.
“Yeah, she was tired,” said Brian Dillow, her father, after she was went outside for a while, walked around some and then went with her parents to Walmart. “She took a nap when we got home.”
Gracie, 6, has had two five-day stays in Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, the second ending when she came more Monday afternoon.
She had both arms and her pelvis broken on May 20 when she was struck by a pickup truck driven by Jared Maring, 26, Pittsburg, while crossing a street in Chanute going to Memorial Hall for a dance lesson. Gracie was just in front of her mother, Lacy, and sister, Morgan, 4.
It was raining at the time and they thought the pickup truck, nearly a block away, posed no problem.
“We’re all glad to be back home, especially Gracie,” Dillow said.
Gracie and her parents thought the first hospital stay — she was taken to Children’s Mercy immediately after the accident — would be it, but when they returned last Thursday for a check up, doctors found a bacterial infection that previously wasn’t detected.
She was hospitalized again so careful attention could be paid to the infection while it was cleared up.
Dillow said his daughter would return to Children’s Mercy next for skin grafting.

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