Another young, perfectly healthy person has died suddenly.
A senior cheerleader at North Little Rock High School, Victoria Moody, 18, died suddenly on Sunday.
Moody’s older sister, Brooke McCarty, says that her sister was perfectly healthy up until Sunday night, when their father, Brian Moody, took her to the hospital because she wasn’t feeling well.
According to her sister, Victoria’s sudden death was caused by a pulmonary embolism.
“She apparently had a pulmonary embolism that was just too far advanced to stop it,” said McCarthy.
According to Mayo Clinic, Pulmonary embolism is a blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in your lungs. In most cases, pulmonary embolism is caused by blood clots that travel to the lungs from deep veins in the legs or, rarely, from veins in other parts of the body (deep vein thrombosis).
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The family of Moody says that she would have graduated this year, she was also on the High School Varsity Cheerleading and competition team.
McCarty says cheerleading was Moody’s entire world, she loved her teammates, coaches, and the sport.
“I just wish more than anything that she would be here, and I just don’t really understand how it happened, or why it happened,” said McCarthy.
She adds that her sister was and still is a wonderful person with a bright future.
“She was absolutely the best human being I knew. and I’m forever grateful for the 18 years that I got to be with her,” said McCarthy. “She was going to go to University of Arkansas or Mississippi State, she had gotten scholarships, and she got invited into the honors program.”
The school, students and loved ones have already gathered for a candlelight vigil on Monday and held a balloon release on Tuesday.
Mr. Moody also says the community support has poured in far and wide, with some businesses making merchandise in memory of Moody. He says wants all the proceeds to go to developing more research towards pulmonary embolisms.
