[2011 May] Virus in the system Sixteen hours after her flu shot, little Saba was in hospital on life support, breathing with the aid of a ventilator and drugged to stop the seizures. An MRI and a CAT scan revealed global brain injury and organ damage. Two doctors and two nurses took the frantic parents aside. “They said they didn’t expect Saba to make it, and if she did she would have severe cerebral palsy and never walk or talk again,” Kirsten says. “It was devastating. I remember I was on the floor, moaning.” Saba spent 11 days in intensive care and eight weeks back in the children’s ward before being sent home with brain damage.