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The family of a 13-year-old girl who died of the flu in Victoria last week expressed her sorrow at this shocking news.
Crystal-Lee Wightley died at home just three days after falling ill Tuesday night with typical symptoms, including fever, body aches and intermittent coughing.
Her mother, Dymanty Fulham, had a doctor's appointment scheduled for Crystal-Lee Friday morning, but she found the unconscious schoolgirl in her room early in the morning.
She called the triple 0 but paramedics were unable to relive her daughter and her death was pronounced at her home in the rural town of Baxter on the Mornington Peninsula.
"We are all broken, everyone is in mourning," said Crystal-Lee's aunt, Yvette Southgate, at Sunday Herald Sun.
"None of us thought we were going to the hospital, she was perfectly healthy and laughed and laughed with her cousins a few days ago.
"Crystal did not show signs that it was going to happen, but it was deadly.
"We are denying – it seems so impossible, it should not happen."
Crystal-Lee, a healthy and fit teenager who dreamed of playing AFLW, was remembered as "divine and sunny".
Crystal-Lee Wightley loved playing netball and football.
"She was a happy soul, just a delight," said Ms. Southgate.
Her aunt Channi Gartland wrote in an article that Crystal-Lee was excited and counted the weeks up to her 14th birthday.
"Crystal was kind, smart, beautiful and she came back to stop a room and then laugh," she wrote.
"On Monday, I was sitting with her in the afternoons, talking about the names of her baby cousin that she was about to meet.
"Each name has been treated by Crystal. She was honest. She took care of everything and her heart was in the right place when she started caring for the little people of her life.
"Little girl … I love you, I miss you and I'm so sorry I can not protect you."
Crystal-Lee's grandmother, Karyn James Wightley, also shared her grief of having lost her granddaughter, claiming that she could not help crying for her "beautiful daughter" .
"I'm heartbroken and life will never be the same again," she wrote on Facebook.
She dreamed of playing AFLW.
Many other parents also paid tribute to the student at Mount Erin College.
"It is with great sadness and deep unbelief that my Princess, the niece Crystal, pbaded away this morning," wrote her uncle Joshua Gartland. "Goes way too early … (you are) such a beautiful girl inside and out."
Her aunt Stacey Rotariu wrote: "My daring girl will miss you for everything you had in your life, you were the best cousin and Macy loved you and loved you so much."
"A beautiful girl inside and out."
According to Sunday Herald SunCrystal-Lee's brothers and grandmother, Pam, also had flu-like symptoms in previous weeks, but recovered.
The flu has already killed 50 Victorians this year. The news of Crystal-Lee's death was announced after a nine-year-old boy spent a week in intensive care after being also hit.
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