In memory of Maddy: MRSA claims life of two month old

Link: In memory of Maddy :: Naperville Sun :: Lifestyles.

Thirty-six hours before Madeline Reimer stopped breathing, her mother snapped a photo of the newborn, sleeping serenely on a pastel blanket in the summer of 2005. Displayed in the stairway of her Plainfield home, it's one of the only photos of her with her eyes closed. In most others, her big, dark eyes are focused on her twin brother, Luke. Her mother, Beth Reimer, looks more closely at the photo today. Maddy's tiny nostrils are flared - possibly because she was struggling to breathe, Beth said. Her parents and her pediatrician thought she had a cold at the time, but a strain of drug-resistant bacteria was eating away at her lungs.