Brazilian model who lost hands and feet dies
One month ago, stunning 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Brindi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a promising career in modeling.
Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract infection. But the bacteria spread quickly throughout her body and proved to be extremely drug resistant. Doctors were forced to amputate her hands and feet in a desperate attempt to save her life, but by Saturday, she was dead.
“God is comforting our hearts because he wanted her to be with him now,” her father Agnaldo Costa told reporters Saturday outside the hospital where his daughter died.
Brindi’s Web site says she began modeling at age 14 after taking a course. In 2007 and 2008, she was a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant.
Last year, she took fourth in the Face of the Universe competition in South Africa and she had won bikini competitions across the globe.
The Miss World Brazil organization said she was an example of someone “who knew how to intensely live her life.”
But in December, she fell ill and doctors in her native Espirito Santo state initially diagnosed her as having kidney stones.
She returned to a hospital on Jan. 3 in septic shock from the infection that would force doctors to amputate first her feet, then her hands. Doctors said there was little they could do but pump drugs into her and hope for the best.
It was a nightmare scenario for anyone with an infection: Her body did not react to the latest and most potent drugs while the bacteria in her veins spread from head to toe.
In Brindi’s case, the culprit was the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is known to be drug resistant.
A short statement from the Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat announced her death on Saturday “despite all the commitment of the hospital team.”
Her aunt said hundreds of messages left on her Web site had lifted Bridi’s spirit in the past weeks.
“The words of consolation that Mariana received in the past few days were very important for her,” said Oriendina Pereira Wasen. “I believe that the serenity on her face came from this spiritual comfort.”
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