NORTH ANDOVER — The odds are never in Cassandra Dupont's favor, but she always seems to find a way.
Doctors told Cassie's mother she'd never walk, but she did. Swine flu ravaged her fragile body in 2009 and left her in a coma, but she wouldn't let it beat her.
Now 16, Cassie is still living with the damage caused by H1N1. Her lungs are weaker than ever and her body is tired. Cassie's resilient spirit remains.
"I'm going to fight," said Cassie. "Game on. I love my life. ... I'm going to fight because God would have already taken me. He's not going to take me."
On June 8, Cassie was placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant, capping a difficult 18 months in which she twice travelled to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for tests.
Doctors there concluded she would not need a heart and lung transplant, as they originally suspected. But if she hopes to live beyond her 18th birthday, Cassie's mother, Danielle DeLisle, said her daughter will need new lungs.
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