"Maddy, your eyes are yellow," a friend told her in a hallway at Andrew Lewis Middle School in Salem.
Although she remembers feeling perfectly fine, she wasn't.
"It was like somebody had taken a highlighter and colored in all the white part of her eyes," said her mother, Diane Rose, principal at East Salem Elementary. "It was sort of a downhill slide from there."
The next day her skin had yellowed as well. Nitrogenous waste, building up in her body, was causing jaundice, they later learned.
"My blood tests showed I was in acute liver failure," Madison said.
"My liver was dying. The cells in it were dying."
The family's Roanoke doctors recommended she seek treatment at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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