Miracle Rabies Survivor Graduates High School
Published: August 13, 2007
Jeanna Giese joined her St. Mary’s Springs classmates in her cap and gown for a day she will never forget Sunday.
“I never lost confidence,” she said.
Jeanna is the first person, without a prior vaccination, known to have survived rabies. In September of 2004, she was bitten by an infected bat.
She made international news when doctors put her into a coma and gave her a cocktail of drugs to fight rabies. In January 2005, she left the hospital to begin her long recovery.
She had to learn to walk and talk all over again. She said her main goal is to walk normally someday.
Six months after her near-death experience, she was back in school. A year later and a year older, Jeanna was learning to drive.
And just this year, we watched her participate in and win a robotics competition with several classmates.
But this is the day Jeanna has been waiting for, and she had a message for all those who helped get her to the graduation stage.
“Just thanks, I guess,” she said.
In the fall, it’s off to Marion College for Jeanna, where she plans to study biology.
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