PHILADELPHIA - A Frankford family got the best gift of the new year. A 14-year-old Philadelphia girl is finally home after a long battle with encephalitis."I cried when they told me she was finally coming home," said Barbara Miller.She’s grateful for the best Christmas gift and start to the New Year she could have ever hoped for. "We came home on New Year’s Eve after seven long weeks from the hospital to the rehab and it’s great to be home," she said.
Her 14-year-old daughter Amani has made a nearly full recovery from encephalitis. It’s an inflammation of the brain that hospitalized her from early November until last week. "Amazing because at one point we were told she might not come home.