The Wayne County Middle School student who died after collapsing at school on Tuesday recently had COVID-19, according to her family.
Kensey Rose Dishman, 13, fell ill Tuesday morning at school, losing consciousness in the bathroom.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: “Her mother was also at the school and was escorted by staff to the bathroom where Kensey had regained consciousness and was talking to nurses who were attending to her, Gibson said. At that point, Kensey had a seizure. Once she came out of the seizure, she was still responsive, asking her mother for help as she was struggling to breathe and having pain in her side. Kensey lost consciousness again and emergency medical technicians transported her to Wayne County Hospital.”
A short time later she was pronounced deceased.
Kensey had been released from quarantine eight days prior to her death.
“She had trouble with breathing during COVID,” Kensey’s stepfather, Brett Gibson, told the newspaper. “She had trouble with her airway and her heart rate. Her blood pressure had been high the day before (she died). She just seemed like she never got over it. Her breathing was really labored when she had COVID. She never really got away from that.”
Autopsy results are as of yet incomplete and Kensey’s cause of death has not been determined.
(Photo of Kensey Rose Dishman courtesy of the Lexington Herald-Leader)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
