"She's diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she's autistic, and she's epileptic," Lewis said. "But she's very fun. She loves to play on her iPad. She scoots around, she doesn't walk, and she's nonverbal. So she wasn't moving, and she became very weak."
Lewis rushed her daughter to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite hospital, where Kadence went into septic shock.
"All her organs shut down. They had her on several different blood pressure medicines," Lewis said. "They put her on the ECMO machine, which saved her life. She came off of that, still sedated and incubated. She was on dialysis. She slowly got better -- got shipped back to Scottish Rite. I couldn't even explain to you the feeling when a doctor comes to you and tells you your daughter isn't going to make it through the night."